Re: postgres vulnerability - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: postgres vulnerability
Date
Msg-id 20041010064438.M66363@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: postgres vulnerability  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Neil Conway wrote:

> Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> > Here  http://www.sans.org/top20/#u9
> > are listed postgres vulnerability it's sad see that almost all
> > are related to third part components
>
> "Almost all"? By my count, 12 of the 17 vulnerabilities refer to
> legitimate problems in PostgreSQL, its RPM distribution, or the ODBC driver.

However, even removing "almost all" from the comment, it's still pretty
sad that a "trusted source for computer security training, certification
and research" would have a >25% miss rate on properly categorizing
vulnerabilities.


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