The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 1189
Logged by: George Gal
Email address: ggal@vsecurity.com
PostgreSQL version: 7.4
Operating system: FreeBSD 5.2 (Current)
Description: unbounded string copy in postmaster
Details:
Looks like the -o command line option doesn't perform any bounds checking on
the option before copying to the ExtraOptions[1024] char array. [line 529 of
postmaster.c]