Guard against overly-long numeric formatting symbols from locale.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Guard against overly-long numeric formatting symbols from locale. to_char() allocates its output buffer with 8 bytes per formatting code in the pattern. If the locale's currency symbol, thousands separator, or decimal or sign symbol is more than 8 bytes long, in principle we could overrun the output buffer. No such locales exist in the real world, so it seems sufficient to truncate the symbol if we do see it's too long. Reported-by: Xint Code Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/638232.1776790821@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 14
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| src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c | modified | +43 −18 |
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