pgsql: Add missing checks to some of pageinspect's BRIN functions - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject pgsql: Add missing checks to some of pageinspect's BRIN functions
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Msg-id E1akXin-0004aF-Ep@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add missing checks to some of pageinspect's BRIN functions

brin_page_type() and brin_metapage_info() did not enforce being called
by superuser, like other pageinspect functions that take bytea do.
Since they don't verify the passed page thoroughly, it is possible to
use them to read the server memory with a carefully crafted bytea value,
up to a file kilobytes from where the input bytea is located.

Have them throw errors if called by a non-superuser.

Report and initial patch: Andreas Seltenreich

Security: CVE-2016-3065

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3e1338475ffc2eac25de60a9de9ce689b763aced

Modified Files
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contrib/pageinspect/brinfuncs.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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