Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients.
This makes the client programs behave as documented regardless of the
connect-time search_path and regardless of user-created objects. Today,
a malicious user with CREATE permission on a search_path schema can take
control of certain of these clients' queries and invoke arbitrary SQL
functions under the client identity, often a superuser. This is
exploitable in the default configuration, where all users have CREATE
privilege on schema "public".
This changes behavior of user-defined code stored in the database, like
pg_index.indexprs and pg_extension_config_dump(). If they reach code
bearing unqualified names, "does not exist" or "no schema has been
selected to create in" errors might appear. Users may fix such errors
by schema-qualifying affected names. After upgrading, consider watching
server logs for these errors.
The --table arguments of src/bin/scripts clients have been lax; for
example, "vacuumdb -Zt pg_am\;CHECKPOINT" performed a checkpoint. That
now fails, but for now, "vacuumdb -Zt 'pg_am(amname);CHECKPOINT'" still
performs a checkpoint.
Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane, though this fix strategy was not his first choice.
Reported by Arseniy Sharoglazov.
Security: CVE-2018-1058
Branch
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REL9_3_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3db38b0ceffd95be81573c884f4be21f79ca954a
Modified Files
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contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c | 13 ++++
contrib/pg_upgrade/server.c | 3 +
contrib/vacuumlo/vacuumlo.c | 8 +-
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 14 ++++
src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c | 16 ++--
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_db.c | 11 +++
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c | 17 ++++-
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c | 7 +-
src/bin/scripts/Makefile | 23 +++---
src/bin/scripts/clusterdb.c | 12 ++-
src/bin/scripts/common.c | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/bin/scripts/common.h | 10 ++-
src/bin/scripts/createdb.c | 2 +-
src/bin/scripts/createlang.c | 4 +-
src/bin/scripts/createuser.c | 2 +-
src/bin/scripts/dropdb.c | 3 +-
src/bin/scripts/droplang.c | 10 +--
src/bin/scripts/dropuser.c | 2 +-
src/bin/scripts/reindexdb.c | 19 ++---
src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c | 9 ++-
src/include/Makefile | 3 +-
src/include/fe_utils/connect.h | 28 +++++++
src/tools/findoidjoins/findoidjoins.c | 9 +++
23 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)