CVE-2017-1000014

Description

From CVE.org

phpMyAdmin 4.0, 4.4, and 4.6 are vulnerable to a DOS weakness in the table editing functionality

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.

Mitigation

Do not click on deep phpMyAdmin links on third party sites.

Affected versions:

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.6), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.10), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.19) are affected.

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/3d230b6
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/38f9223
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/a134a01

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-20

Availability

Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)

An attacker could provide unexpected values and cause a program crash or arbitrary control of resource allocation, leading to excessive consumption of resources such as memory and CPU.

Confidentiality

Technical Impact: Read Memory; Read Files or Directories

An attacker could read confidential data if they are able to control resource references.

Integrity,Confidentiality,Availability

Technical Impact: Modify Memory; Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands

An attacker could use malicious input to modify data or possibly alter control flow in unexpected ways, including arbitrary command execution.

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