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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-03-29 11:54:57 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-03-29 11:54:57 -0400 |
commit | 11cc7bb8825efc74c9418f6e88d448cc253c47b0 (patch) | |
tree | 8046e4ed03a6b3bf5ca63952dc776231b17c225a /doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml | |
parent | a3c643938166abed9a390cdbd8a5df09bfe39523 (diff) | |
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Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' FormatMessage() function.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag,
it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well.
Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function
will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not
passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the
rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of.
Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
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