Vince,

Do you reckon it's worth you responding to "Sir Mordred" and pointing
out that he overstated the vulnerability?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for.  :)
> 
> The claim that this bug allows execution of arbitrary code is bogus anyway.
> The overflow at INT_MIN will clobber the stack, yes, but in an absolutely
> predetermined way; an attacker will have no opportunity to insert code
> of his choosing.
> 
>                         regards, tom lane

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