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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-6623): phpmyadmin vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2016
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. An authorized user can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on a server by passing large values to a loop. 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

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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