Re: postgres vulnerability - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: postgres vulnerability
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Msg-id ckbagg$9g3$1@floppy.pyrenet.fr
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In response to Re: postgres vulnerability  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
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David Garamond wrote:
> Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> I consider RPM distribution and ODBC driver as third part component.
> 
> 
> Unless the vulnerability is introduced by a patch in the RPM, RPM is 
> just a compiled version of the original. Thus, not third party code.

Well the RPM issue was about wrong file permission, do you think this is 
a postgres vulnerability ?


Regards
Gaeatano Mendola




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