Re: Security lessons from liblzma

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Security lessons from liblzma
Date: 2024-03-29 22:48:35
Message-ID: CA+hUKGK4ZewHeVtnbBc_pbZRHZa6GyO=UpJ5XDmomA9Lf0xpkA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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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