Re: a vulnerability in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: a vulnerability in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 20020613.101045.45157492.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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In response to Re: a vulnerability in PostgreSQL  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> Do we need to do any more work to document this problem?

Better documetation will be welcome. However which document?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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> 
> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > Oops. How about:
> > > 
> > > foo'; DROP TABLE t1; -- foo
> > > 
> > > The last ' gets removed, leaving -- (81a2).
> > > 
> > > So you get:
> > > select ... '(0x81a2)'; DROP TABLE t1; -- (0x81a2)
> > 
> > This surely works:-< Ok, you gave me an enough example that shows even
> > 7.1.x and 7.0.x are not safe.
> > 
> > Included are patches for 7.1.3. Patches for 7.0.3 and 6.5.3 will be
> > posted soon.
> 
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