Re: 7.4.5 / 7.4.6 crash (pg_hba.conf issue)

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: 7.4.5 / 7.4.6 crash (pg_hba.conf issue)
Date: 2004-11-18 06:40:54
Message-ID: 419C43F6.8030805@bigfoot.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
>
>>>Off-by-one memory allocation problem --- it only bites you if the string
>>>lengths are just right, which probably explains the lack of prior
>>>reports even though the bug has been there since 7.3.
>
>
>>Is this worth new dot releases?
>
>
> I'd say not.

At my knowledge Postgres can read that file even if it's writable by
anyone ( I can not test right now or look at the code), if this is the
case then this is a sort of serious bug :-(

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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