Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0004: Multiple buffer overflows in PostgreSQL. (fwd)

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> On 20 Aug 2002, Neil Conway wrote:
> Is there any chance that pg_database_encoding_max_length() could return
> zero and give a divide by zero error?  Or is that trapped?

I don't think so (the array of encodings that contains the data seems
to be pre-defined), but I know next to nothing about multibyte, so I
may be wrong. In any case, the "divide by zero" error would cause an
elog(ERROR) anyway, not a segfault...

Cheers,

Neil

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