diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3fb20f7ec5..0bcf3f6f5d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 
 4.6.4 (not yet released)
 - issue        Include X-Robots-Tag header in responses
+- issue        Enfornce numeric field length when creating table
 
 4.6.3 (2016-06-23)
 - issue #12249 Fixed cookie path on Windows
diff --git a/libraries/Table.php b/libraries/Table.php
index bdbbcc6c0c..5bc6ea187d 100644
--- a/libraries/Table.php
+++ b/libraries/Table.php
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ class Table
         $pattern = '@^(DATE|TINYBLOB|TINYTEXT|BLOB|TEXT|'
             . 'MEDIUMBLOB|MEDIUMTEXT|LONGBLOB|LONGTEXT|SERIAL|BOOLEAN|UUID)$@i';
         if ($length != '' && ! preg_match($pattern, $type)) {
-            $query .= '(' . $length . ')';
+            $query .= '(' . intval($length) . ')';
         }
 
         if ($virtuality) {