On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:06, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:36, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > improve the capabilities of the database. For security issues, if we > > > already have ten open doors in a house, does it help to lock two of > > > them when the other eight are still open?
> > Yes. It depends upon which street the door faces. See the MS SQL Server > > Sapphire worm for reference. > Right. All our open doors are on the inside, so we aren't too bad. SQL injection exploits for various frontends are also an issue. I just have an issue with being able to crash the server with an SQL command. We'll see how it pans out, I guess. Red Hat certainly thought it was worth spending some time on; reference their back porting of the fixes to versions as old as 6.5.3. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
