Re: Securing "make check" (CVE-2014-0067)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 07:04:20PM -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:52:22PM -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I'm inclined to suggest that we should put the socket under $CWD by
> > > default, but provide some way for the user to override that choice.
> > > If they want to put it in /tmp, it's on their head as to how secure
> > > that is.  On most modern platforms it'd be fine.
> >
> > I am skeptical about the value of protecting systems with non-sticky /tmp, but
> > long $CWD isn't of great importance, either.  I'm fine with your suggestion.
> > Though the $CWD or one of its parents could be world-writable, that would
> > typically mean an attacker could just replace the test cases directly.
>
> Here's the patch.  The temporary data directory makes for a convenient socket
> directory; initdb already gives it mode 0700, and we have existing
> arrangements to purge it when finished.  One can override the socket directory
> by defining PG_REGRESS_SOCK_DIR in the environment.

And here's a documentation patch warning about the limited applicability of
unix_socket_permissions.