Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within

an allegedly immutable index function.  It was previously recognized that
we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION
AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session
user.  However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes
of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change
settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session.
Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to
be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one
that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing.

The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against
these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection
against the SET ROLE issue.  GUC changes are still allowed, since there are
many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a
rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation.  Other cases are
handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp
table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared
statement.  (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't
exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.)

Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by
Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2009-4136

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index 7a9a5690265..6414427cc3d 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/miscadmin.h,v 1.183.2.2 2008/01/03 21:24:26 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/miscadmin.h,v 1.183.2.3 2009/12/09 21:58:44 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  some of the information in this file should be moved to other files.
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ extern void check_stack_depth(void);
  *			POSTGRES directory path definitions.							 *
  *****************************************************************************/
 
+/* flags to be OR'd to form sec_context */
+#define SECURITY_LOCAL_USERID_CHANGE	0x0001
+#define SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION	0x0002
+
 extern char *DatabasePath;
 
 /* now in utils/init/miscinit.c */
@@ -231,9 +235,12 @@ extern char *GetUserNameFromId(Oid roleid);
 extern Oid	GetUserId(void);
 extern Oid	GetOuterUserId(void);
 extern Oid	GetSessionUserId(void);
+extern void GetUserIdAndSecContext(Oid *userid, int *sec_context);
+extern void SetUserIdAndSecContext(Oid userid, int sec_context);
+extern bool InLocalUserIdChange(void);
+extern bool InSecurityRestrictedOperation(void);
 extern void GetUserIdAndContext(Oid *userid, bool *sec_def_context);
 extern void SetUserIdAndContext(Oid userid, bool sec_def_context);
-extern bool InSecurityDefinerContext(void);
 extern void InitializeSessionUserId(const char *rolename);
 extern void InitializeSessionUserIdStandalone(void);
 extern void SetSessionAuthorization(Oid userid, bool is_superuser);