[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0085] Limit request sizes to /KdcProxy

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 20:34 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
> On 2015-07-22 20:23, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > Related: CVE-2015-5159
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245200
> 
> The patch prevents a flood attack but I consider more a workaround 
> than
> a solution. I'll update kdcproxy tomorrow.

The problem is that while we can provide a sane default, special
applications might require different sizes (either smaller or larger).
I think this fix is acceptable since it keeps the solution entirely
within the configuration domain.

Nathaniel