The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1189
Logged by: George Gal

Email address: ggal (AT) vsecurity (DOT) com

PostgreSQL version: 7.4

Operating system: FreeBSD 5.2 (Current)

Description: unbounded string copy in postmaster

Details:

Looks like the -o command line option doesn't perform any bounds checking on
the option before copying to the ExtraOptions[1024] char array. [line 529 of
postmaster.c]


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"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs (AT) postgresql (DOT) org> writes:
I cannot get super excited about this, since the person or script
starting the postmaster has to be trusted anyway. But I've tweaked
the code to prevent a buffer overrun here.

regards, tom lane

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