Candidate: CVE-2016-6631
PublicDate: 2016-12-11 02:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6631
 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-54/
Description:
 An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. A user can execute a remote code
 execution attack against a server when phpMyAdmin is being run as a CGI
 application. Under certain server configurations, a user can pass a query
 string which is executed as a command-line argument by the file
 generator_plugin.sh. 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that phpmyadmin incorrectly handled request query
 strings. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: high
Discovered-by: Emanuel Bronshtein
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_phpmyadmin:
 upstream: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0a3c6d3
upstream_phpmyadmin: released (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)
precise_phpmyadmin: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_phpmyadmin: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_phpmyadmin: released (4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1)
trusty/esm_phpmyadmin: released (4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1)

vivid/stable-phone-overlay_phpmyadmin: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_phpmyadmin: DNE
xenial_phpmyadmin: released (4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1)

yakkety_phpmyadmin: not-affected (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)
zesty_phpmyadmin: not-affected (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)
artful_phpmyadmin: not-affected (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)
bionic_phpmyadmin: not-affected (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)
devel_phpmyadmin: not-affected (4:4.6.4+dfsg1-1)