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| author | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2015-07-28 21:39:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2015-07-28 22:06:31 +0200 |
| commit | ab60847822463613629e11e0675952320319197a (patch) | |
| tree | a50582413f9d4b0bf68a2b1592dd309c56e7f611 /src | |
| parent | 450bf0ba530101822e6d5ecdd3d9c13fe01ebce5 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-ab60847822463613629e11e0675952320319197a.tar.gz postgresql-ab60847822463613629e11e0675952320319197a.zip | |
Disable ssl renegotiation by default.
While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it
turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's
implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use
of renegotiation also had its share of bugs.
Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported
and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with
obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get
around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete.
Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems,
e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when
synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default
setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released
backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master..
Author: Michael Paquier, with changes by me
Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.0-9.4; 9.5 and master get a different patch
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c index 6ad0892b937..396c68b30ef 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c @@ -2457,7 +2457,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] = GUC_UNIT_KB, }, &ssl_renegotiation_limit, - 512 * 1024, 0, MAX_KILOBYTES, + 0, 0, MAX_KILOBYTES, NULL, NULL, NULL }, diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample index 8dfd485e0b9..3845d57808b 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample +++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ # (change requires restart) #ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = on # (change requires restart) #ssl_ecdh_curve = 'prime256v1' # (change requires restart) -#ssl_renegotiation_limit = 512MB # amount of data between renegotiations +#ssl_renegotiation_limit = 0 # amount of data between renegotiations #ssl_cert_file = 'server.crt' # (change requires restart) #ssl_key_file = 'server.key' # (change requires restart) #ssl_ca_file = '' # (change requires restart) |