Re: Feature Request on Extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Feature Request on Extensions
Date
Msg-id 20130819234250.GF9087@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Feature Request on Extensions  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:44:36PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > That's pretty vague.  Exactly what does "keys to the kingdom" mean?  If
> > it means you can do anything to the database, you are right.  If it
> > means executing arbitrary code, including arbitrary kernel calls, I
> > would like to hear how that is done.   
> 
> You've now heard about one way to do that in an off-list email, so that
> it's not in our public archives for any malicious user to find it.

Yes, agreed.  FYI, the method I listed above is public and was
discovered on an exploit website.

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