From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: fix for palloc() of user-supplied length |
Date: | 2002-08-28 03:01:38 |
Message-ID: | 200208280301.g7S31ck03962@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil, is this the one Sir-* complained about?
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Neil Conway wrote:
> This patch fixes the so-called DoS possibility when processing the
> password packet in recv_and_check_passwordv0(). Nothing fancy, I just
> added a sanity check to ensure that we bail out if the client enters
> an obviously-bogus length.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
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