Re: CVE-2024-10979 - Does this affect Postgres built without --with-perl option?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-10979 - Does this affect Postgres built without --with-perl option?
Date: 2024-12-04 17:13:44
Message-ID: CAKFQuwaura8869fQeGXem2Jkpj1JTdWbdqwN4G2B+4G6e4ARdw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 10:07 AM Mark Hill <Mark(dot)Hill(at)sas(dot)com> wrote:

> Does the CVE-2024-10979 affect Postgres that is NOT built with the
> --with-perl option?
>
>
It requires the attacker being able to write and get executed a PL function
in the server written in pl/perl. That is impossible if the server hasn't
been compiled using the --with-perl option.

David J.

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