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Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters.
authorNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:41:13 +0000 (09:41 -0400)
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:41:18 +0000 (09:41 -0400)
commit95cefd30e190019127fdbf9fdaa9f26cc36e0ca6
tree214939024c428ea419ca073ff5fa857523c33823
parent8b0d1c87dd457eadab971ed6525051985a040409
Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters.

Any OS user able to access the socket can connect as the bootstrap
superuser and proceed to execute arbitrary code as the OS user running
the test.  Protect against that by placing the socket in a temporary,
mode-0700 subdirectory of /tmp.  The pg_regress-based test suites and
the pg_upgrade test suite were vulnerable; the $(prove_check)-based test
suites were already secure.  Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
The hazard remains wherever the temporary cluster accepts TCP
connections, notably on Windows.

As a convenient side effect, this lets testing proceed smoothly in
builds that override DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR.  Popular non-default values
like /var/run/postgresql are often unwritable to the build user.

Security: CVE-2014-0067
doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
src/test/regress/.gitignore
src/test/regress/GNUmakefile
src/test/regress/pg_regress.c