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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
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- contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c 13 additions, 0 deletionscontrib/oid2name/oid2name.c
- contrib/vacuumlo/vacuumlo.c 3 additions, 5 deletionscontrib/vacuumlo/vacuumlo.c
- src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c 14 additions, 0 deletionssrc/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
- src/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c 18 additions, 0 deletionssrc/bin/pg_basebackup/streamutil.c
- src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c 10 additions, 6 deletionssrc/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c
- src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_db.c 11 additions, 0 deletionssrc/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_db.c
- src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 15 additions, 2 deletionssrc/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
- src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c 2 additions, 5 deletionssrc/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c
- src/bin/pg_rewind/libpq_fetch.c 7 additions, 0 deletionssrc/bin/pg_rewind/libpq_fetch.c
- src/bin/pg_upgrade/server.c 3 additions, 0 deletionssrc/bin/pg_upgrade/server.c
- src/bin/scripts/Makefile 12 additions, 11 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/Makefile
- src/bin/scripts/clusterdb.c 8 additions, 4 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/clusterdb.c
- src/bin/scripts/common.c 127 additions, 10 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/common.c
- src/bin/scripts/common.h 7 additions, 3 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/common.h
- src/bin/scripts/createdb.c 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/bin/scripts/createdb.c
- src/bin/scripts/createlang.c 2 additions, 2 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/createlang.c
- src/bin/scripts/createuser.c 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/bin/scripts/createuser.c
- src/bin/scripts/dropdb.c 2 additions, 1 deletionsrc/bin/scripts/dropdb.c
- src/bin/scripts/droplang.c 2 additions, 8 deletionssrc/bin/scripts/droplang.c
- src/bin/scripts/dropuser.c 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/bin/scripts/dropuser.c
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