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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6622

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An unauthenticated user is able to execute a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by forcing persistent connections w...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 phpmyadmin

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 phpmyadmin

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 phpmyadmin

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org