DOS vulnerability in table partitioning

PMASA-2016-68

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-68

Date: 2016-11-25

Updated: 2016-12-06

Summary

DOS vulnerability in table partitioning

Description

With a very large request to table partitioning function, it is possible to invoke a Denial of Service (DOS) attack.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-9863

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-400

Patches

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

• 7ddcbc0

More information

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