| From: | David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgres vulnerability |
| Date: | 2004-10-10 11:07:54 |
| Message-ID: | 4169180A.6090901@zara.6.isreserved.com |
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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.
> However doing a full scan :-) on all bugs I widthraw "almost all".
--
dave
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