postgres and CVE-2010-0442

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Thu Mar 25 14:44:26 UTC 2010


On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:12:21 +0300
Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
> Could someone look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144863 
> ?  There is quite serious security issue in postgres, which allow any 
> user to kill others' sessions.
>

It's only been a week since it was assigned to the maintainer (girgen@)
to look at.

It's too soon for a maintainer timeout, although I suppose if this is
considered to be an enormous security risk it could be committed without
waiting.

I'd say that's a decision for portmgr@ to make.

--
Gary Jennejohn


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