Re: [HACKERS] patch for buffer overrun with sequences

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: mgittens(at)david(dot)gits(dot)nl (Maurice Gittens)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] patch for buffer overrun with sequences
Date: 1998-03-30 17:14:31
Message-ID: 199803301714.MAA15066@candle.pha.pa.us
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Applied.

>
> Hi,
>
> The buffer overrun while creating sequences turns out to be
> a read access overrun. For the sake of doing things properly
> here is a patch which fixes it.
>
> This patch is for the file backend/commands/sequence.c.
>
> 87a88
> > NameData name;
> 113c114,115
> < value[i - 1] = PointerGetDatum(seq->seqname);
> ---
> > namestrcpy(&name, seq->seqname);
> > value[i - 1] = NameGetDatum(&name);
>
>
> With regards from Maurice.
>
>

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