Re: postgres vulnerability

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres vulnerability
Date: 2004-10-10 13:48:42
Message-ID: 20041010064438.M66363@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, 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.

However, even removing "almost all" from the comment, it's still pretty
sad that a "trusted source for computer security training, certification
and research" would have a >25% miss rate on properly categorizing
vulnerabilities.

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