From f4aa3a18a20d51575562520754aa376b3b08b2d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noah Misch Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:22:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET. Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Upstream-Status: Backport Signed-off-by: Noah Misch Index: postgresql-9.4.4/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c =================================================================== --- postgresql-9.4.4.orig/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c 2015-06-10 03:29:38.000000000 +0800 +++ postgresql-9.4.4/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c 2016-03-04 15:58:26.459266951 +0800 @@ -7072,6 +7072,17 @@ !process_shared_preload_libraries_in_progress) elog(FATAL, "cannot create PGC_POSTMASTER variables after startup"); + /* + * Before pljava commit 398f3b876ed402bdaec8bc804f29e2be95c75139 + * (2015-12-15), two of that module's PGC_USERSET variables facilitated + * trivial escalation to superuser privileges. Restrict the variables to + * protect sites that have yet to upgrade pljava. + */ + if (context == PGC_USERSET && + (strcmp(name, "pljava.classpath") == 0 || + strcmp(name, "pljava.vmoptions") == 0)) + context = PGC_SUSET; + gen = (struct config_generic *) guc_malloc(ERROR, sz); memset(gen, 0, sz);