Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release
Date
Msg-id 200208241123.g7OBNmS08909@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The issue is data-provoked crashes vs. query-invoked crashes.  Marc's
> > point, and I think it was clear enough, is that you can't just poke at
> > the TCP port and hope to do anything bad, which was the thrust of the
> > argument, I think.
> 
> The point I objected to is the suggestion that only those running
> "shared" or "open" systems are vulnerable to the security
> problem. That is simply incorrect.

Yes, I remember now.  It is a bad data vunerability vs. a bad query
vulnerability.

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