Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0004: Multiple buffer overflows

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> > And another one.
> 
> This patch should fix the problem. Doesn't include my previous patch
> for repeat(). Again, somewhat off-the-cuff, so I might have missed
> something...
> 
> test=# select lpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR:  Requested length too large
> test=# select rpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR:  Requested length too large
> 
> (That's on a Unicode DB, haven't tested other encodings but AFAICT
> this fix should still work.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
> -- 
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