Comment # 11 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-46/

PMASA-2016-46

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-46

Date: 2016-07-26
Summary

Denial of service (DOS) attack by for loops
Description

A vulnerability has been reported where a malicious authorized user can cause a
denial-of-service (DOS) attack on a server by passing large values to a loop.
Severity

We consider this issue 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, 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-2016-6623

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    5a28b63

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

    62ae47c

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

    ff1016e