pgsql: Fix choice of comparison operators for cross-type hashed subplan

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix choice of comparison operators for cross-type hashed subplan
Date: 2019-08-05 15:20:57
Message-ID: E1huenB-00079L-Ek@gemulon.postgresql.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-committers

Fix choice of comparison operators for cross-type hashed subplans.

Commit bf6c614a2 rearranged the lookup of the comparison operators
needed in a hashed subplan, and in so doing, broke the cross-type
case: it caused the original LHS-vs-RHS operator to be used to compare
hash table entries too (which of course are all of the RHS type).
This leads to C functions being passed a Datum that is not of the
type they expect, with the usual hazards of crashes and unauthorized
server memory disclosure.

For the set of hashable cross-type operators present in v11 core
Postgres, this bug is nearly harmless on 64-bit machines, which
may explain why it escaped earlier detection. But it is a live
security hazard on 32-bit machines; and of course there may be
extensions that add more hashable cross-type operators, which
would increase the risk.

Reported by Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to v11 where the
problem came in.

Security: CVE-2019-10209

Branch
------
REL_11_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a034418cfc85fffa300d4d44792561c09e76f68b

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/executor/nodeSubplan.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Browse pgsql-committers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2019-08-05 15:49:32 pgsql: Last-minute updates for release notes.
Previous Message Noah Misch 2019-08-05 14:49:41 pgsql: Require the schema qualification in pg_temp.type_name(arg).