Re: Prepared Statements

I have checked, the query is indeed sent like that to the backend, I've
just checked.
It is a bug.
Presumably for number types the parameter set is passed as it is,
without any escaping.

Cheers,
Csaba.


On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:38, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Dmitry Tkach wrote:
> > Barry Lind wrote:
> >
> >> If using a PreparedStatement the driver correctly escapes all values
> >> to avoid SQL injection attacks.
> >
> >
> > No, it doesn't :-)
> > For example:
> >
> > PreparedStatement s = c.prepareStatement ("select * from user where id =
> > ?");
> > s.setObject (1, "null;drop database mydatabase", Types.INTEGER);
> > System.out.println (s.toString ());
> >
> > select * from user where id=null;drop database mydb
> >
> > :-)
> >
>
> I don't believe this is actually being sent to the backend, maybe it is
> just a toString() bug.
>
> The backend should get:
>
> select * from user where id='null;drop database mydb'
>
> (If it does not it is a bug.)
>
>
> P.S.: The example case would only succeed if the DBA is an idiot.
> You program should not be accessing the database (for this queries at
> least) as an user who can drop databases unless it is a privileged
> program for privileged users (who could do the damage using plain psql
> anyway).  Perhaps the injection of a 'DELETE FROM mytable' would be a
> more realistic example.
>
>
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