| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions |
| Date: | 2004-07-24 16:55:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200407241655.i6OGtEp13717@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >As a super-user, could an attacker load a server-side language and
> >access the backend environment variable PGDATA.
> >
> >
>
> plperl won't do it, but plperlu will (as expected I guess). But the
> superuser will have to jump through some explicit hoops in order to get
> there, which is different from providing such facilities out of the box.
I am thinking they could easily use pgtcl. I don't think the hoops are
very high.
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