SB2016121137 - Resource management error in phpMyAdmin

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6622)

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

CVSSv4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections when phpMyAdmin is running with $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer']=true. 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.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95049
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00006.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-45