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authorTom Lane2006-05-21 20:06:45 +0000
committerTom Lane2006-05-21 20:06:45 +0000
commitb252352241fdeea313831e4c0da6317b70537514 (patch)
tree9dd1925085cd9073bde96759a35328e1b68648ab /doc/src
parent48498602a0536dcd4a840b83f37c7aaeb03dc6df (diff)
Change the backend to reject strings containing invalidly-encoded multibyte
characters in all cases. Formerly we mostly just threw warnings for invalid input, and failed to detect it at all if no encoding conversion was required. The tighter check is needed to defend against SQL-injection attacks as per CVE-2006-2313 (further details will be published after release). Embedded zero (null) bytes will be rejected as well. The checks are applied during input to the backend (receipt from client or COPY IN), so it no longer seems necessary to check in textin() and related routines; any string arriving at those functions will already have been validated. Conversion failure reporting (for characters with no equivalent in the destination encoding) has been cleaned up and made consistent while at it. Also, fix a few longstanding errors in little-used encoding conversion routines: win1251_to_iso, win866_to_iso, euc_tw_to_big5, euc_tw_to_mic, mic_to_euc_tw were all broken to varying extents. Patches by Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane. Thanks to Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki for identifying the security issues.
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