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Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:57:51 +0000 (21:57 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:57:51 +0000 (21:57 +0000)
commit62aba76568e58698ad5eaa6153bc45186aacbde2
tree6ddf83fc9221cc5fcb5eaff059fad0ca2f55a494
parent7aeaa97de2b9c8661cd4ef2f3470d0df47458853
Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within
an allegedly immutable index function.  It was previously recognized that
we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION
AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session
user.  However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes
of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change
settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session.
Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to
be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one
that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing.

The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against
these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection
against the SET ROLE issue.  GUC changes are still allowed, since there are
many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a
rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation.  Other cases are
handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp
table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared
statement.  (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't
exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.)

Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by
Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2009-4136
14 files changed:
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
src/backend/catalog/index.c
src/backend/commands/analyze.c
src/backend/commands/schemacmds.c
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
src/backend/executor/execMain.c
src/backend/tcop/utility.c
src/backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c
src/backend/utils/fmgr/fmgr.c
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
src/include/miscadmin.h
src/include/utils/guc.h