[DIRSERVER-1260] Add a protection agains DoS attacks

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.5
• Assignee: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Reporter: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Created: 17/Sep/08 09:42
• Updated: 02/Dec/08 22:45
• Resolved: 02/Dec/08 13:24

Description

A malicious user can send hand crafted PDUs which can break the server in OOM errors. Another kind of attack would be to send big images, leading to OOM too.

We must implement some protection against such DoS attacks (which may not be malicious).