pgsql: Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Log Message:
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Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using
the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER
functions.  The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined
functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a
superuser account that is performing routine maintenance.  While a function
used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything
very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and
even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive
information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage.

To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context.

Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability.

Security: CVE-2007-6600

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:
        set_role.sgml (r1.4 -> r1.5)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml?r1=1.4&r2=1.5)
        set_session_auth.sgml (r1.16 -> r1.17)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_session_auth.sgml?r1=1.16&r2=1.17)
        show.sgml (r1.44 -> r1.45)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/show.sgml?r1=1.44&r2=1.45)
    pgsql/src/backend/access/transam:
        xact.c (r1.255 -> r1.256)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c?r1=1.255&r2=1.256)
    pgsql/src/backend/catalog:
        index.c (r1.289 -> r1.290)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/catalog/index.c?r1=1.289&r2=1.290)
    pgsql/src/backend/commands:
        analyze.c (r1.113 -> r1.114)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/analyze.c?r1=1.113&r2=1.114)
        schemacmds.c (r1.48 -> r1.49)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/schemacmds.c?r1=1.48&r2=1.49)
        vacuum.c (r1.362 -> r1.363)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c?r1=1.362&r2=1.363)
        variable.c (r1.124 -> r1.125)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/variable.c?r1=1.124&r2=1.125)
    pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
        ri_triggers.c (r1.100 -> r1.101)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c?r1=1.100&r2=1.101)
    pgsql/src/backend/utils/fmgr:
        fmgr.c (r1.112 -> r1.113)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/fmgr/fmgr.c?r1=1.112&r2=1.113)
    pgsql/src/backend/utils/init:
        miscinit.c (r1.165 -> r1.166)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c?r1=1.165&r2=1.166)
    pgsql/src/include:
        miscadmin.h (r1.198 -> r1.199)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/miscadmin.h?r1=1.198&r2=1.199)