Re: BUG #5687: RADIUS Authentication issues - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alan T DeKok
Subject Re: BUG #5687: RADIUS Authentication issues
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Msg-id 4CAE1F90.5030804@freeradius.org
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In response to Re: BUG #5687: RADIUS Authentication issues  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: BUG #5687: RADIUS Authentication issues  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If you can test the complete patch in your environment (particularly
> if you already have a "bad packet injector" that you know creates the
> issue on 9.0), that would be great though.

  If you use FreeRADIUS, use "radclient" to send the following text:

User-Name = "bob"
User-Password = "hello"
Raw-Attribute = 0x0501

  The last bit is a malformed RADIUS attribute.

>>  OK.  My only interest there was to ensure that a DoS attack wouldn't
>> result in the log being flooded with "invalid packet" messages.
>
> Uh, how exactly does your patch prevent that?

  Hmm.... not so much.

  Alan DeKok.

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