Re: fix for palloc() of user-supplied length

Neil, is this the one Sir-* complained about?

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Neil Conway wrote:
> This patch fixes the so-called DoS possibility when processing the
> password packet in recv_and_check_passwordv0(). Nothing fancy, I just
> added a sanity check to ensure that we bail out if the client enters
> an obviously-bogus length.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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