Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > But maybe we can just live with what we have and advertise that 8.0's > plperl is more secure. The release notes should point out that 7.4's plperl is unsecure unless the correct version of Safe.pm is installed. Maybe it works to

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Neil Conway wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 02:45, Andrew Dunstan wrote: *shrug* OK. Then plperl should probably not be regarded as being as "trusted" as we would like. Note that old versions of Safe.pm have been the subject of security advisories such as this one http://www.securityfocus.com/

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-19 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 02:45, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > *shrug* OK. Then plperl should probably not be regarded as being as > "trusted" as we would like. Note that old versions of Safe.pm have been > the subject of security advisories such as this one > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6111/info/

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Do we want to backport tighter security for plperl? In particular, insisting on Safe.pm >= 2.09 and removing the :base_io set of ops? I'd vote not: 7.4.5 => 7.4.6 is not an update that people would expect to break their plperl cod

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-17 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we want to backport tighter security for plperl? In particular, > insisting on Safe.pm >= 2.09 and removing the :base_io set of ops? I'd vote not: 7.4.5 => 7.4.6 is not an update that people would expect to break their plperl code ...

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: If anyone has any pending 7.4 fixes, getting them in in the next few days would be a Good Plan. Do we want to backport tighter security for plperl? In particular, insisting on Safe.pm >= 2.09 and removing the :base_io set of ops? And it would also be n

Re: [HACKERS] 7.4 changes

2004-10-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: If anyone has any pending 7.4 fixes, getting them in in the next few days would be a Good Plan. Do we want to backport tighter security for plperl? In particular, insisting on Safe.pm >= 2.09 and removing the :base_io set of ops? cheers andrew ---(end