Re: Google vulnerabilities with PoC

[Hugh Davenport <hugh () davenport net nz>]

On 2014-03-14 10:56, andfarm wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:33, Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile () gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > 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*.
>
> It's not even clear at this point that the uploaded data is even being
> persisted! Since the uploaded file is not made available for download,
> it's entirely possible that it is being deleted as soon as Google's
> video transcoding systems discover it isn't a supported video format.

In the email reply from google they confirmed that it was stored, but
you can't get it out so kind of a moot point :D

> The comments on the Softpedia article are painfully stupid, by the
> way. I recommend not reading them. :)
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