Re: PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4
Date: 2004-10-24 23:53:58
Message-ID: 28630.1098662038@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:43, Tom Lane wrote:
>> He's not. There were two other recent security reports, which core kept
>> to ourselves until the release could be made.

> Ah, ok -- fair enough. Are those additional security fixes mentioned in
> the release notes?

Yes, or at least the one that affected PG proper (pg_ctl as root).
The other was a bug in the RPM init script.

I just realized that Devrim wasn't in the loop on that, so he'll
probably have to rebuild the PGDG RPMs :-(

regards, tom lane

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