CVE-2016-6618: Uncontrolled Resouce Consumption

December 11, 2016 (updated July 8, 2018)

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. The transformation feature allows a user to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the server.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6618
www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-41

Code Behaviors & Features

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