Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature

PMASA-2016-41

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-41

Date: 2016-07-14

Summary

Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature

Description

A vulnerability was found in the transformation feature allowing a user to trigger a denial-of-service (DOS) attack against the server.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6618

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• ff88cdb

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 2582fa1

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• 551031d

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.