oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- pgbouncer: DoS (pooler server shutdown) by adding database with large name

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:35:34 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- pgbouncer: DoS (pooler server shutdown)
 by adding database with large name

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On 11/02/2012 04:53 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> a denial of service flaw was found in the way pgbouncer, a
> lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, performed processing
> of client requests attempting to add new database(s) with large
> name(s). A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause pooler
> server shutdown.
> 
> Relevant upstream patch: [1]
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgbouncer.git;a=commitdiff;h=4b92112b820830b30cd7bc91bef3dd8f35305525
>
>  References: [2]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692103 [3]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872527
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 

Please use CVE-2012-4575 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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