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From: Jim Jones <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #18943: Return value of a function 'xmlBufferCreate' is dereferenced at xpath.c:177 without checking for NUL
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 19:00:25 +0200
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On 08.06.25 17:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> Our risk-aversion level rises steadily over the course of a release
> cycle, and is pretty high post beta1.  While I think the problems
> we're trying to fix here are real, they are very low-probability
> (I don't recall hearing any field reports traceable to this).
> And you have to remember there is also some risk of introducing
> new bugs.  On balance it's not a change I would back-patch, and
> at this point v18 is pretty close to being a stable branch so
> it's not getting fixes we wouldn't back-patch, unless that's
> because they are in new-in-18 code.

Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Best regards, Jim






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