Even though our existing code for handling credentials control messages has
been basically unchanged since 2001, it was fundamentally wrong: it did not
ensure proper alignment of the supplied buffer, and it was calculating
buffer sizes and message sizes incorrectly. This led to failures on
platforms where alignment padding is relevant, for instance FreeBSD on
64-bit platforms, as seen in a recent Debian bug report passed on by
Martin Pitt (http://bugs.debian.org//cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612888).
Rewrite to do the message-whacking using the macros specified in RFC 2292,
following a suggestion from Theo de Raadt in that thread. Tested by me
on Debian/kFreeBSD-amd64; since OpenBSD and NetBSD document the identical
CMSG API, it should work there too.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
The code to assemble ldap_get_values_len's output into a single string
wrote the terminating null one byte past where it should. Fix that,
and make some other cosmetic adjustments to make the code a trifle more
readable and more in line with usual Postgres coding style.
Also, free the "result" string when done with it, to avoid a permanent
memory leak.
Bug report and patch by Albe Laurenz, cosmetic adjustments by me.
Recent releases had a check on rel->rd_refcnt in heap_drop_with_catalog,
but failed to cover the possibility of pending trigger events at DROP time.
(Before 8.4 we didn't even check the refcnt.) When the trigger events were
eventually fired, you'd get "could not open relation with OID nnn" errors,
as in recent report from strk. Better to throw a suitable error when the
DROP is attempted.
Also add a similar check in DROP INDEX.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
The trick is to not try to build executables directly from .c files,
but to always build the intermediate .o files. For obscure reasons,
Darwin's version of gcc will leave debug cruft behind in the first
case but not the second. Per complaint from Robert Haas.
The previous patches failed to cover a lot of symlinks that are only
added in platform-specific cases. Make the lists match what's in the
Makefile for each branch.
parameter against server cert's CN field) to succeed in the case where
both host and hostaddr are specified. As with the existing precedents
for Kerberos, GSSAPI, SSPI, it is the calling application's responsibility
that host and hostaddr match up --- we just use the host name as given.
Per bug #5559 from Christopher Head.
In passing, make the error handling and messages for the no-host-name-given
failure more consistent among these four cases, and correct a lie in the
documentation: we don't attempt to reverse-lookup host from hostaddr
if host is missing.
Back-patch to 8.4 where SSL cert verification was introduced.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.
This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
set ferror() but never set feof(). This is known to be the case for recent
glibc when trying to read a directory as a file, and might be true for other
platforms/cases too. Per report from Ed L. (There is more that we ought to
do about his report, but this is one easily identifiable issue.)
at least in some Windows versions, these functions are capable of returning
a failure indication without setting errno. That puts us into an infinite
loop if the previous value happened to be EINTR. Per report from Brendan
Hill.
Back-patch to 8.2. We could take it further back, but since this is only
known to be an issue on Windows and we don't support Windows before 8.2,
it does not seem worth the trouble.
attacks where an attacker would put <attack>\0<propername> in the field and
trick the validation code that the certificate was for <attack>.
This is a very low risk attack since it reuqires the attacker to trick the
CA into issuing a certificate with an incorrect field, and the common
PostgreSQL deployments are with private CAs, and not external ones. Also,
default mode in 8.4 does not do any name validation, and is thus also not
vulnerable - but the higher security modes are.
Backpatch all the way. Even though versions 8.3.x and before didn't have
certificate name validation support, they still exposed this field for
the user to perform the validation in the application code, and there
is no way to detect this problem through that API.
Security: CVE-2009-4034
list, minus a few specific words that have to be treated specially. This
replaces a hard-wired list of keywords that would have needed manual
maintenance, and was not getting it. The 8.4 coding was already missing
these words, causing ecpg to incorrectly treat them as reserved words:
CALLED, CATALOG, DEFINER, ENUM, FOLLOWING, INVOKER, OPTIONS, PARTITION,
PRECEDING, RANGE, SECURITY, SERVER, UNBOUNDED, WRAPPER. In HEAD we were
additionally missing COMMENTS, FUNCTIONS, SEQUENCES, TABLES.
Per gripe from Bosco Rama.
It seems the flex developers have decided to change yyleng from int to size_t.
This has already happened in the latest release of OS X, and will start
happening elsewhere once the next release of flex appears. Rather than trying
to divine how it's declared in any particular build, let's just remove the one
existing not-very-necessary external usage.
Back-patch to all supported branches; not so much because users in the field
are likely to care about building old branches with cutting-edge flex, as
to keep OSX-based buildfarm members from having problems with old branches.
__attribute__() marker so that gcc can validate the format string against
the actual arguments, get rid of overcomplicated and unsafe usage in
base_yyerror().
Tom Lane