Comment # 25 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-32/

PMASA-2016-32

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-32

Date: 2016-07-12
Summary

PHP code injection
Description

A vulnerability was found where a specially crafted database name could be used
to run arbitrary PHP commands through the array export feature
Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be of moderate severity.
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, or 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-2016-6609

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    a82835c

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

    6b310f0

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

    34a1ceb