Return nulls honestly in aggregate "combine" functions.
numeric_combine() and several other state-combining functions for
aggregates cheated for the case of both inputs being NULL: they
returned a null pointer without bothering to mark it as a SQL NULL.
This was harmless in the expected usage where the result would be
passed to the same combine function or a related aggregate final
function. But it's bad news from a security standpoint, because
now that value can be passed to an internal-accepting function
even if said function is strict. While a previous patch prevented
such queries from being issued, it seems like good defense-in-depth
to expend the few additional lines of code needed to do this properly.
Comparable functions such as array_agg_combine() already do so.
Reported-by: Amy Burnett (OpenAI Codex Security)
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-14680
Branch
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REL_17_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/83d0a083f178f22c60814b93d17ecacdcce76eac
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
