pgsql: Adjust datetime parsing to be more robust.

From: neilc(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Neil Conway)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Adjust datetime parsing to be more robust.
Date: 2005-05-26 02:10:03
Message-ID: 20050526021003.A766A52839@svr1.postgresql.org
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Log Message:
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Adjust datetime parsing to be more robust. We now pass the length of the
working buffer into ParseDateTime() and reject too-long input there,
rather than checking the length of the input string before calling
ParseDateTime(). The old method was bogus because ParseDateTime() can use
a variable amount of working space, depending on the content of the
input string (e.g. how many fields need to be NUL terminated). This fixes
a minor stack overrun -- I don't _think_ it's exploitable, although I
won't claim to be an expert.

Along the way, fix a bug reported by Mark Dilger: the working buffer
allocated by interval_in() was too short, which resulted in rejecting
some perfectly valid interval input values. I added a regression test for
this fix.

Tags:
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REL8_0_STABLE

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
date.c (r1.104.4.1 -> r1.104.4.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/date.c.diff?r1=1.104.4.1&r2=1.104.4.2)
datetime.c (r1.137.4.1 -> r1.137.4.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c.diff?r1=1.137.4.1&r2=1.137.4.2)
nabstime.c (r1.127 -> r1.127.4.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c.diff?r1=1.127&r2=1.127.4.1)
timestamp.c (r1.117.4.1 -> r1.117.4.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c.diff?r1=1.117.4.1&r2=1.117.4.2)
pgsql/src/include/utils:
datetime.h (r1.52 -> r1.52.4.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/utils/datetime.h.diff?r1=1.52&r2=1.52.4.1)
pgsql/src/test/regress/expected:
interval.out (r1.9 -> r1.9.6.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/interval.out.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.9.6.1)
pgsql/src/test/regress/sql:
interval.sql (r1.5 -> r1.5.8.1)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/interval.sql.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.5.8.1)

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