Disable ssl renegotiation by default.
While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it
turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's
implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use
of renegotiation also had its share of bugs.
Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported
and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with
obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get
around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete.
Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems,
e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when
synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default
setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released
backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master..
Author: Michael Paquier, with changes by me
Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.0-9.4; 9.5 and master get a different patch
Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ab60847822463613629e11e0675952320319197a
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 10 +++++++++-
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 2 +-
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +-
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)