Re: 7.4.5 / 7.4.6 crash (pg_hba.conf issue) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: 7.4.5 / 7.4.6 crash (pg_hba.conf issue)
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Msg-id 419C43F6.8030805@bigfoot.com
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In response to Re: 7.4.5 / 7.4.6 crash (pg_hba.conf issue)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:> Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:>>>>Off-by-one memory allocation problem --- it only bites
youif the string>>>lengths are just right, which probably explains the lack of prior>>>reports even though the bug has
beenthere since 7.3.>>>>Is this worth new dot releases?>>> I'd say not.
 

At my knowledge Postgres can read that file even if it's writable by
anyone ( I can not test right now or look at the code), if this is the
case then this is a sort of serious bug :-(


Regards
Gaetano Mendola



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