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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-03-29 11:54:57 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-03-29 11:54:57 -0400
commit491e847380740dac54d4ecae820261bbaa8aee44 (patch)
tree15f8d8fb2780314b8b0d235c2b9a2f8f5bdcdea8 /src/backend/port
parent978894a41f335ccd21140c559ecdc22f42d2f142 (diff)
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Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' FormatMessage() function.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag, it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well. Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of. Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/port')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/port/win32/socket.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c b/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
index cfbfa2d6e97..d62fe67dd4e 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
@@ -658,7 +658,9 @@ pgwin32_socket_strerror(int err)
}
ZeroMemory(&wserrbuf, sizeof(wserrbuf));
- if (FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE,
+ if (FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS |
+ FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
+ FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE,
handleDLL,
err,
MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),