"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at> writes:
> I have found a small but annoying bug in libpq where
> connection parameters are resolved via LDAP.
> There is a write past the end of a malloc'ed string which causes
> memory corruption. The code and the bug are originally by me :^(
Hmm ... that's a bug all right, but why have the null-termination
inside the loop at all? Seems like it should look like
for (p = result, i = 0; values[i] != NULL; ++i)
{
strncpy(p, values[i]->bv_val, values[i]->bv_len);
p += values[i]->bv_len;
*(p++) = '\n';
}
*p = '\0';
> This should be backpatched to 8.2 where the code was introduced.
Yes, will do.
regards, tom lane
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