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hyperman1 on Dec 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack

Isn't there a way to make the database very slow by a complicated but generic query. Thinking about e.g. oracle's connect by + dual

If this is the case, removing sleep doesnt help you. Just run a slow query

bufferoverflow on Dec 2, 2018 [–]

Yeah, MySQL has recursive queries.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/with.html#common-tab...

Though one can set a limit on query run time via max_execution_time.

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