Re: PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4
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Msg-id 28630.1098662038@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.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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