| From: | Florian Weimer <Weimer(at)CERT(dot)Uni-Stuttgart(dot)DE> |
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| To: | thomas(at)postgresql(dot)org (Thomas Lockhart) |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src include/utils/timestamp.h bac ... |
| Date: | 2002-08-04 17:53:17 |
| Message-ID: | 87ado27boy.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE |
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thomas(at)postgresql(dot)org (Thomas Lockhart) writes:
> Log message:
> Add guard code to protect from buffer overruns on long date/time input
> strings. Should go back in and look at doing this a bit more elegantly
> and (hopefully) cheaper. Probably not too bad anyway, but it seems a
> shame to scan the strings twice: once for length for this buffer overrun
> protection, and once to parse the line.
Are these changes available for 7.2, too? There is at least a DoS
potential lurking here. :-(
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