[cl-openid-ticket] #10: possible DOS attack

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Sun Jul 20 17:35:25 UTC 2008


#10: possible DOS attack
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 Reporter:  avodonosov  |       Owner:  mpasternacki           
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:  HTTP client portability
Component:  code        |     Version:  0.5 nonportable        
 Keywords:              |  
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 As RP fetches any user supplied URI, it is easy to enter URL of some big
 file
 (say 1 GB) as a value of OpenID login and submit the form 20-30 times.

 The RP server will quickly run our of memory.

 IMHO limiting the size of fetched content is sufficient to prevent this
 problem.

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