Comment # 16 on bug 994313 from Marcus Meissner

https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-41/

PMASA-2016-41

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-41

Date: 2016-07-14
Summary

Denial of service (DOS) attack in transformation feature
Description

A vulnerability was found in the transformation feature allowing a user to
trigger a denial-of-service (DOS) attack against the server.
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-2016-6618

CWE ids: CWE-661
Patches

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

    ff88cdb

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

    2582fa1

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

    551031d