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Message-ID: <87zkaxq2l0.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:02:51 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: postgresql-jdbc 8.1 SQL injection with postgresql server 9.1
* Ludwig Nussel:
> Postgresql 9.1 turned "standard conforming strings" on by default[1][2].
> postgresql-jdbc before version 8.2-504 however did not know about that
> kind of string and escaped single quotes with a backslash always. When
> such an old version of postgresql-jdbc is used with a newer postgresql
> server it not only breaks when strings contain single quotes, it also
> allows for SQL injections[3].
By the way, if you want to fix this for some reason, you should
probably include support for the modified BYTEA encoding introduced in
the 9.0 server version, too.
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