Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:06, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Lamar Owen wrote: > > > On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:36, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > improve the capabilities of the database. For security issues, if we > > > > already have ten open doors in a house, does it help to lock two of > > > > them when the other eight are still open? > > > > Yes. It depends upon which street the door faces. See the MS SQL Server > > > Sapphire worm for reference. > > > Right. All our open doors are on the inside, so we aren't too bad. > > SQL injection exploits for various frontends are also an issue. > > I just have an issue with being able to crash the server with an SQL command. > We'll see how it pans out, I guess. > > Red Hat certainly thought it was worth spending some time on; reference their > back porting of the fixes to versions as old as 6.5.3.
If we can get them all, it is a big win. If we can't, I don't think it is a win. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
