Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src include/utils/timestamp.h bac ...

thomas@postgresql.org (Thomas Lockhart) writes:

> Log message:
>     Add guard code to protect from buffer overruns on long date/time input
>     strings. Should go back in and look at doing this a bit more elegantly
>     and (hopefully) cheaper. Probably not too bad anyway, but it seems a
>     shame to scan the strings twice: once for length for this buffer overrun
>     protection, and once to parse the line.

Are these changes available for 7.2, too?  There is at least a DoS
potential lurking here. :-(

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