Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Sir Mordred The Traitor
Subject Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 3d6a49ce.4b9ea323@s-mail.com
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In response to @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL  (Sir Mordred The Traitor <mordred@s-mail.com>)
Responses Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0007: Remove DoS in PostgreSQL  (Þórhallur Hálfdánarson <tolli@tol.li>)
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>Hey, if I can connect to postmaster I can DoS it quite easily, but
flooding it
>with connection requests.....

Hm, that's true of course, but now i will do this with a couple of
connections.
Lets say, bot on a owned machine, connects to a database, 
send a crafted packet,
postgresql will allocate a huge amount of memory, and will be 
happy to read anything it recvs from my bot.



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