Re: Embedded SQL vulnerability

From: Glen Eustace <geustace(at)godzone(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Embedded SQL vulnerability
Date: 2001-09-01 02:13:23
Message-ID: 01090114132307.01171@agree-6
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On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:26, Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> A patch did go in just recently, but didn't make it into 7.1.3.
>
> You can always do the escaping yourself--the patch just makes the
> escape call available in the library; it doesn't automatically fix
> your code.

Agreed, but if it were in a library that I am linking already, then I don't
need to either have a library of my own or add code to 'escape' to each
programme.

In the interim, I have simply added the code to mod_auth_pgsql

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