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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-6438:
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Thanks for backporting the fix, Myrna. I got a request for this fix on 10.6, so
I did that backport myself (it merged cleanly from 10.7).
Are you planning to backport it any further? If not, I'll mark the issue as
resolved.
> Explicitly grant SocketPermission "listen" in default server policy
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> Key: DERBY-6438
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6438
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Network Server
> Affects Versions: 10.11.0.0
> Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
> Assignee: Knut Anders Hatlen
> Fix For: 10.11.0.0
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> Attachments: d6438-1a.diff
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> The network server needs SocketPermission "listen" on the port that it
> listens to, but this permission is not granted by the basic server policy
> that's installed by default. This doesn't cause any problems in most cases,
> since the JVM's default policy grants all code bases SocketPermission
> "listen" on a range of ports, and Derby's network server port is within that
> range.
> Still, the network server should not rely on this fact. It is possible to run
> the network server on any port, not only those ports that happen be in the
> range that's given carte blanche by the platform's default policy. The
> network server will however not be able to run on those ports with the basic
> policy currently, only with a custom policy or with the security manager
> disabled.
> The default policy should make this permission explicit.
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