Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in
Date: 2002-08-21 06:41:32
Message-ID: 20020821034054.A36114-100000@mail1.hub.org
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On 20 Aug 2002, Neil Conway wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> > Here's yet another.
>
> Should someone from the core team perhaps get in contact with this guy
> and ask if he could get in contact with the development team before
> publicizing any further security holes? AFAIK that is standard
> operating procedure in most cases...
>
> Second, it might be worth pushing a 7.2.2 release containing the fix
> for this bug, as well as the datetime problem. If that sounds
> reasonable to the people who have to do the most work on a new release
> (e.g. Marc), I can volunteer to backport a fix for the datetime
> problem.

I have no problems doing a v7.2.2 release for something like this ...

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