| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue |
| Date: | 2004-11-03 23:34:19 |
| Message-ID: | 18308.1099524859@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I think Tom's fix adequately addresses the security concerns. Exactly
>> what is wrong with writing to the current working directory?
> Because it could be run from a directory where others have write
> permission.
In which case, they could also change the findoidjoins script itself.
I think your fix is *less* secure than what you replaced.
However, I've already wasted more than enough time on this issue...
I'm done arguing about it.
regards, tom lane
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