PMASA-2014-17
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-17
Date: 2014-12-03
Summary
DoS vulnerability with long passwords.
Description
With very long passwords it was possible to initiate a denial of service attack on phpMyAdmin.
Severity
We consider this vulnerability to be serious.
Mitigation factor
This vulnerability can be mitigated by configuring throttling in the webserver.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.7), 4.1.x (prior to 4.1.14.8) and 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.13.1) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.7 or newer, or 4.1.14.8 or newer, or 4.2.13.1 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2014-9218
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.1 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.