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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Lars Olson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #4074: Using SESSION_USER or CURRENT_USER in a view definition is unsafe
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:22:47 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  If this were a security issue, you already spilled the beans by
> >  reporting it to a public mailing list; so I'm unsure what you are
> >  concerned about.
> 
> I'd wager that Lars didn't realise the bug form goes straight to the
> list. We should probably make that more clear.
> 
> On the other hand it does say to report security issues to security@...

Let's have a checkbox "I am reporting a security issue" and send the
mail to security@ if checked.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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