Re: Security lessons from liblzma - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Security lessons from liblzma
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Msg-id CA+hUKGK4ZewHeVtnbBc_pbZRHZa6GyO=UpJ5XDmomA9Lf0xpkA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to [MASSMAIL]Security lessons from liblzma  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> You might have seen reports today about a very complex exploit added to
> recent versions of liblzma.  Fortunately, it was only enabled two months
> ago and has not been pushed to most stable operating systems like Debian
> and Ubuntu.  The original detection report is:
>
>         https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Incredible work from Andres.  The attackers made a serious strategic
mistake: they made PostgreSQL slightly slower.



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