Re: fix for palloc() of user-supplied length

From: Serguei Mokhov <mokhov(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fix for palloc() of user-supplied length
Date: 2002-09-12 02:07:23
Message-ID: 1031796443.3d7ff6dbbdb26@mailhost.cs.concordia.ca
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Quoting Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>:

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> This was already applied by Tom Lane. I was not sure you were informed.

Yes, I was. Thank you.

-s

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> revision 1.91
> date: 2002/09/04 23:31:34; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +4 -5
> Guard against send-lots-and-lots-of-data DoS attack from unauthenticated
> users, by limiting the length of string we will accept for a password.
> Patch by Serguei Mokhov, some editorializing by Tom Lane.

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Serguei A. Mokhov, <mailto: mokhov @ cs.concordia.ca>
Computer Science, Concordia University

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