Thread: BUG #1303: backend crashes due wrong TCP packet

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1303
Logged by:          Yevgeniy Kondratiev

Email address:      sundaw@rex400.ru

PostgreSQL version: 7.4.5

Operating system:   RHEL3

Description:        backend crashes due wrong TCP packet

Details:

over, i think, network problems or ODBC errors there are some wrong packets
which crash postgresql backend.

TCP package with postgresql data (hex) 58 00 00 00 00 00
doest it.

> over, i think, network problems or ODBC errors there are some wrong packets
> which crash postgresql backend.
> TCP package with postgresql data (hex) 58 00 00 00 00 00
> doest it.

Not for me.  The backend logs a complaint about invalid message length
and disconnects, which is what it's supposed to do.

            regards, tom lane