Comment # 24 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-33/

PMASA-2016-33

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-33

Date: 2016-07-12
Summary

Full path disclosure
Description

A full path disclosure vulnerability was discovered where a user can trigger a
particular error in the export mechanism to discover the full path of
phpMyAdmin on the disk.
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-2016-6610

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    7f7a8ac

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

    5b7da18

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

    dd73213