Yes, these are legitimate points. Sent from a computer
> On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Źmicier Januszkiewicz <ga...@tut.by> wrote: > > : you could upload huge blobs and just take up space on the google servers. > How many people upload gigabytes of crappy videos on google servers, > hourly? So far, the DDoS didn't happen for some reason, even > considering the amount of users. There is a small potential to exploit > this via a botnet, but what's the gain? YT upload breaks? Wow, so much > win. > > By the way, why not just upload some valid, generated on the fly MPEG > stream? The effect is the same if you consider the data amount, but > without all the "unrestricted" shouts and academic vulnerabilities. > > > 2014-03-13 18:33 GMT+01:00 Brandon Perry <bperry.volat...@gmail.com>: >> If you were evil, you could upload huge blobs and just take up space on the >> google servers. Who knows what will happen if you upload a couple hundred >> gigs of files. They dont disappear, they are just unretrievable afaict. It >> is a security risk in the sense that untrusted data is being persisted >> *somewhere*. >> >> Upload a couple terabytes, cause a DoS because some hdd in the DC fills up. >> Who knows. >> >> Sent from a computer >> >> On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Michal Zalewski <lcam...@coredump.cx> wrote: >> >>>> The only reasonable way to 'exploit' the bug is using youtube as a >>>> "personal storage" uploading non-video files to your own profile: so what? >>> >>> That would require a way to retrieve the stored data, which - as I >>> understand - isn't possible here (although the report seems a bit >>> hard-to-parse). From what I recall, you can just upload a blob of data >>> and essentially see it disappear. >>> >>> We do have quite a few services where you can legitimately upload and >>> share nearly-arbitrary content, though. Google Drive is a good >>> example. >>> >>> /mz >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >>> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >>> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
