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From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Unchecked strdup leading to segfault in pg_dump
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Msg-id CC661D60-6F4C-474D-B9CF-E789ACA3CEFC@yesql.se
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While looking at something else I noticed that pg_dump performs strdup without
checking the returned pointer, which will segfault in hasSuffix() in case of
OOM.  The attached, which should be backpatched to 16, changes to using
pg_strdup instead which handles it.

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Daniel Gustafsson
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