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postgres-protocol: Panic decoding a malformed `hstore` value allows denial of service
A malicious or compromised server can return a binary `hstore` value with an invalid internal length field, causing the client to panic while decoding it. Applications that connect only to a trusted database are not exposed; the risk applies to clients that m…
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postgres-protocol: Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service
A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle server can supply an arbitrarily large SCRAM-SHA-256 PBKDF2 iteration count during authentication. The client runs it inline with no upper bound, pinning a `tokio` worker thread for minutes per connection, possib…