Re: binds only for s,u,i,d?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Agent M <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: binds only for s,u,i,d?
Date: 2006-07-05 17:13:48
Message-ID: 44ABF34C.8040809@dunslane.net
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Greg Stark wrote:

>Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
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>>On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:28 -0400, Agent M wrote:
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>>>Why can't preparation be used as a global anti-injection facility?
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>>All that work would need to be deferred to EXECUTE-time, which would largely
>>defeat the purpose of server-side prepared statements, no?
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>It would also defeat the anti-injection purpose. If you can use parameters to
>change the semantics of the query then you're not really protected any more.
>The whole security advantage of using parameters comes from knowing exactly
>what a query will do with the data you provide.
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Exactly. In particular, the suspect data should never hit the parser.
You can defeat that with a function call, of course, but you have to
work at it.

cheers

andrew

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