Bug 18854 - Protect from DOS
authorChris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:34:12 +0000 (17:34 +1200)
committerJonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org>
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:02:04 +0000 (12:02 -0300)
commit99b32717cd2596ce89a2d46b8cb4ddbba2dea5ad
treed8473d8c52d6e53ecbcd931a8aaa5507c45deda9
parent068db9aaabb0694b4d12404bda16525efad0fde7
Bug 18854 - Protect from DOS

There was a bug that meant a very large offset in the search params
will cause the search script to run forever (or long enough to crash
the machine)

To test

1/ Get ready with sudo top so you can kill the thread before it causes
your machine to OOM
2/ Hit a page like yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=1&offset=-9999999999999999999
3/ Notice the process runs for a long time
4/ Kill the process
5/ Apply the patch
6/ Hit the page again, notice the it loads (offset is set to zero)
7/ Do the same to search in the staff client

Signed-off-by: Mirko Tietgen <mirko@abunchofthings.net>

Signed-off-by: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Amended: changed -2 to 0 in opac-search.pl.
Signed-off-by: Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com>

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart@bugs.koha-community.org>
catalogue/search.pl
opac/opac-search.pl