Re: [BUGS] Fwd: Infinite recursion in function causes DoS

2004-03-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:25:33 +0100, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Either way, this situation leads to a DoS of the database system or the > entire machine. Since any user with enough privileges to access the > database can create and execute functions, this raises a slight secu

Re: [BUGS] Fwd: Infinite recursion in function causes DoS

2004-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In short it was requested to limit the depth of (recursive) function > calls to prevent database crashes. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2004-03/msg00249.php regards, tom lane ---(end of br

Re: [BUGS] Fwd: Infinite recursion in function causes DoS

2004-03-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi PostgreSQL hackers! > > We recently received and discussed a Debian bug report agains > postgresql. If you have time, please have a look at > > http://bugs.debian.org/239811 > > In short it was requested to limit the depth of (recursive) function > calls to prevent data