- Apr 20, 2017
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- Apr 07, 2017
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
An important step of SASLprep normalization, is to convert the string to Unicode normalization form NFKC. Unicode normalization requires a fairly large table of character decompositions, which is generated from data published by the Unicode consortium. The script to generate the table is put in src/common/unicode, as well test code for the normalization. A pre-generated version of the tables is included in src/include/common, so you don't need the code in src/common/unicode to build PostgreSQL, only if you wish to modify the normalization tables. The SASLprep implementation depends on the UTF-8 functions from src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c. So to use it, you must also compile and link that. That doesn't change anything for the current users of these functions, the backend and libpq, as they both already link with wchar.o. It would be good to move those functions into a separate file in src/commmon, but I'll leave that for another day. No documentation changes included, because there is no details on the SCRAM mechanism in the docs anyway. An overview on that in the protocol specification would probably be good, even though SCRAM is documented in detail in RFC5802. I'll write that as a separate patch. An important thing to mention there is that we apply SASLprep even on invalid UTF-8 strings, to support other encodings. Patch by Michael Paquier and me. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSByyEmAVLtEf1KxTRh=PWNKiWKEKQR=e1yGehz=wbymQ@mail.gmail.com
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- Mar 07, 2017
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
This introduces a new generic SASL authentication method, similar to the GSS and SSPI methods. The server first tells the client which SASL authentication mechanism to use, and then the mechanism-specific SASL messages are exchanged in AuthenticationSASLcontinue and PasswordMessage messages. Only SCRAM-SHA-256 is supported at the moment, but this allows adding more SASL mechanisms in the future, without changing the overall protocol. Support for channel binding, aka SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS is left for later. The SASLPrep algorithm, for pre-processing the password, is not yet implemented. That could cause trouble, if you use a password with non-ASCII characters, and a client library that does implement SASLprep. That will hopefully be added later. Authorization identities, as specified in the SCRAM-SHA-256 specification, are ignored. SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION provides more or less the same functionality, anyway. If a user doesn't exist, perform a "mock" authentication, by constructing an authentic-looking challenge on the fly. The challenge is derived from a new system-wide random value, "mock authentication nonce", which is created at initdb, and stored in the control file. We go through these motions, in order to not give away the information on whether the user exists, to unauthenticated users. Bumps PG_CONTROL_VERSION, because of the new field in control file. Patch by Michael Paquier and Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed at different stages by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, David Steele, Aleksander Alekseev, and many others. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRbR3GmFYdedCAhzukfKrgBLTLtMvENOmPrVWREsZkF8g%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSMXU35g%3DW9X74HVeQp0uvgJxvYOuA4A-A3M%2B0wfEBv-w%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/55192AFE.6080106@iki.fi
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- May 20, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
This reverts commit 16304a01, except for its changes in src/port/snprintf.c; as well as commit cac18a76 which is no longer needed. Fujii Masao reported that the previous commit caused failures in psql on OS X, since if one exits the pager program early while viewing a query result, psql sees an EPIPE error from fprintf --- and the wrapper function thought that was reason to panic. (It's a bit surprising that the same does not happen on Linux.) Further discussion among the security list concluded that the risk of other such failures was far too great, and that the one-size-fits-all approach to error handling embodied in the previous patch is unlikely to be workable. This leaves us again exposed to the possibility of the type of failure envisioned in CVE-2015-3166. However, that failure mode is strictly hypothetical at this point: there is no concrete reason to believe that an attacker could trigger information disclosure through the supposed mechanism. In the first place, the attack surface is fairly limited, since so much of what the backend does with format strings goes through stringinfo.c or psprintf(), and those already had adequate defenses. In the second place, even granting that an unprivileged attacker could control the occurrence of ENOMEM with some precision, it's a stretch to believe that he could induce it just where the target buffer contains some valuable information. So we concluded that the risk of non-hypothetical problems induced by the patch greatly outweighs the security risks. We will therefore revert, and instead undertake closer analysis to identify specific calls that may need hardening, rather than attempt a universal solution. We have kept the portion of the previous patch that improved snprintf.c's handling of errors when it calls the platform's sprintf(). That seems to be an unalloyed improvement. Security: CVE-2015-3166
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- May 18, 2015
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Noah Misch authored
All known standard library implementations of these functions can fail with ENOMEM. A caller neglecting to check for failure would experience missing output, information exposure, or a crash. Check return values within wrappers and code, currently just snprintf.c, that bypasses the wrappers. The wrappers do not return after an error, so their callers need not check. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Popular free software standard library implementations do take pains to bypass malloc() in simple cases, but they risk ENOMEM for floating point numbers, positional arguments, large field widths, and large precisions. No specification demands such caution, so this commit regards every call to a printf family function as a potential threat. Injecting the wrappers implicitly is a compromise between patch scope and design goals. I would prefer to edit each call site to name a wrapper explicitly. libpq and the ECPG libraries would, ideally, convey errors to the caller rather than abort(). All that would be painfully invasive for a back-patched security fix, hence this compromise. Security: CVE-2015-3166
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- May 08, 2014
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
Michael Paquier
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- Mar 17, 2013
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Tom Lane authored
We need this in non-ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY builds, and also to satisfy the exports.txt entry; while it might be a good idea to remove the latter, I'm hesitant to do so except in the context of an intentional ABI break. At least we don't have a separately maintained source file for it anymore.
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- Jun 18, 2011
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Magnus Hagander authored
Since we now have a global rule in the root .gitignore, there's no need to keep directory-specific ones as well. Noted by Peter Eisentraut
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- Jun 03, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
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- Apr 19, 2011
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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- Feb 19, 2011
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Add a new libpq connection option client_encoding (which includes the existing PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable), which besides an encoding name accepts a special value "auto" that tries to determine the encoding from the locale in the client's environment, using the mechanisms that have been in use in initdb. psql sets this new connection option to "auto" when running from a terminal and not overridden by setting PGCLIENTENCODING. original code by Heikki Linnakangas, with subsequent contributions by Jaime Casanova, Peter Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, Ibrar Ahmed
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- Nov 25, 2010
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Robert Haas authored
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- Sep 23, 2010
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Tom Lane authored
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.
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- Sep 22, 2010
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Magnus Hagander authored
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