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
Patches
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.