PMASA-2016-55
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-55
Date: 2016-07-25
Summary
Denial of service (DOS) attack with dbase extension
Description
A flaw was discovered where, under certain conditions, phpMyAdmin may not delete temporary files during the import of ESRI files.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.
Mitigation factor
This vulnerability only exists when PHP is running with the dbase extension, which is not shipped by default, not available in most Linux distributions, and doesn't compile with PHP7.
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-2016-6632
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.