Bug #12507 Simple perl script causes a denial of services condition for MySQLD
Submitted: 10 Aug 2005 19:59 Modified: 1 Sep 2005 15:50
Reporter: Jonathan Miller Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:4.0.26-BK, 5.0.12-BK OS:Linux (Linux)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
Privacy:

If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file:

[1 Sep 2005 15:43] Valeriy Kravchuk
Sligtly modified Perl script

Attachment: 12507.pl (application/octet-stream, text), 2.36 KiB.

[1 Sep 2005 15:44] Valeriy Kravchuk
Launch program for it. Pass number of copies to run as a first parameter

Attachment: 12507.sh (application/octet-stream, text), 131 bytes.

[1 Sep 2005 15:45] Valeriy Kravchuk
Results of test run (continues to infinitum)... 10 simultaneous copies...

Attachment: 12507.txt (text/plain), 2.29 KiB.