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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

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From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-24T04:44:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Saturday 24 August 2002 12:37 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Right, but you have to get a connection to the backend in order to crash
> > it ... no?

> The point was that it might be possible to exploit this with only
> indirect access to the database, such as entering "date" information

And this is the reason I was in favor of 7.2.2.
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Lamar Owen
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