postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 98ca64899c Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure.
Hostile objects located within the installation-time search_path could
capture references in an extension's installation or upgrade script.
If the extension is being installed with superuser privileges, this
opens the door to privilege escalation.  While such hazards have existed
all along, their urgency increases with the v13 "trusted extensions"
feature, because that lets a non-superuser control the installation path
for a superuser-privileged script.  Therefore, make a number of changes
to make such situations more secure:

* Tweak the construction of the installation-time search_path to ensure
that references to objects in pg_catalog can't be subverted; and
explicitly add pg_temp to the end of the path to prevent attacks using
temporary objects.

* Disable check_function_bodies within installation/upgrade scripts,
so that any security gaps in SQL-language or PL-language function bodies
cannot create a risk of unwanted installation-time code execution.

* Adjust lookup of type input/receive functions and join estimator
functions to complain if there are multiple candidate functions.  This
prevents capture of references to functions whose signature is not the
first one checked; and it's arguably more user-friendly anyway.

* Modify various contrib upgrade scripts to ensure that catalog
modification queries are executed with secure search paths.  (These
are in-place modifications with no extension version changes, since
it is the update process itself that is at issue, not the end result.)

Extensions that depend on other extensions cannot be made fully secure
by these methods alone; therefore, revert the "trusted" marking that
commit eb67623c9 applied to earthdistance and hstore_plperl, pending
some better solution to that set of issues.

Also add documentation around these issues, to help extension authors
write secure installation scripts.

Patch by me, following an observation by Andres Freund; thanks
to Noah Misch for review.

Security: CVE-2020-14350
2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
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adminpack Read until EOF vice stat-reported size in read_binary_file 2020-07-04 06:28:21 -04:00
amcheck amcheck: Sanitize metapage's allequalimage field. 2020-08-06 15:25:47 -07:00
auth_delay Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
auto_explain Add the option to report WAL usage in EXPLAIN and auto_explain. 2020-04-06 08:02:15 +05:30
bloom Implement operator class parameters 2020-03-30 19:17:23 +03:00
bool_plperl Create contrib/bool_plperl to provide a bool transform for PL/Perl[U]. 2020-03-06 17:11:23 -05:00
btree_gin Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
btree_gist Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
citext Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
cube Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
dblink Initialize dblink remoteConn struct in all cases 2020-05-28 13:44:54 -04:00
dict_int Preserve integer and float values accurately in (de)serialize_deflist. 2020-03-10 12:30:02 -04:00
dict_xsyn Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
earthdistance Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
file_fdw Remove utils/acl.h from catalog/objectaddress.h 2020-03-10 10:27:00 +01:00
fuzzystrmatch Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
hstore Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
hstore_plperl Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
hstore_plpython Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style. 2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
intagg Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
intarray Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
isn Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
jsonb_plperl Mark some contrib modules as "trusted". 2020-02-13 15:02:35 -05:00
jsonb_plpython In jsonb_plpython.c, suppress warning message from gcc 10. 2020-01-30 18:26:12 -05:00
lo Fix bogus CALLED_AS_TRIGGER() defenses. 2020-04-03 11:24:56 -04:00
ltree Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
ltree_plpython Improve error messages in ltree_in and lquery_in. 2020-03-31 11:14:42 -04:00
oid2name Add PostgreSQL home page to --help output 2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
pageinspect Remove useless pfree()s at the ends of various ValuePerCall SRFs. 2020-03-16 21:36:53 -04:00
passwordcheck Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
pg_buffercache Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
pg_freespacemap Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
pg_prewarm Remove excess parens in ereport() calls 2020-01-30 13:32:04 -03:00
pg_standby pg_standby: Don't use HAVE_WORKING_LINK 2020-03-03 08:54:44 +01:00
pg_stat_statements doc: Spell checking 2020-07-05 15:38:14 +02:00
pg_trgm Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
pg_visibility Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13. 2020-05-14 13:06:50 -04:00
pgcrypto Fix corner case with 16kB-long decompression in pgcrypto, take 2 2020-07-27 15:58:54 +09:00
pgrowlocks Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls. 2020-03-16 21:05:52 -04:00
pgstattuple Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
postgres_fdw Revert "Use CP_SMALL_TLIST for hash aggregate" 2020-07-12 23:08:16 -07:00
seg Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
sepgsql Fix cache reference leak in contrib/sepgsql. 2020-04-16 14:45:54 -04:00
spi Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
sslinfo Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
start-scripts Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/. 2017-11-17 12:53:20 -05:00
tablefunc Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
tcn Mark some contrib modules as "trusted". 2020-02-13 15:02:35 -05:00
test_decoding Propagate ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE to indexes 2020-05-08 08:39:17 +02:00
tsm_system_rows Mark some contrib modules as "trusted". 2020-02-13 15:02:35 -05:00
tsm_system_time Mark some contrib modules as "trusted". 2020-02-13 15:02:35 -05:00
unaccent Update Unicode data to Unicode 13.0.0 and CLDR 37 2020-04-24 09:52:59 +02:00
uuid-ossp Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
vacuumlo Add PostgreSQL home page to --help output 2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
xml2 Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Create contrib/bool_plperl to provide a bool transform for PL/Perl[U]. 2020-03-06 17:11:23 -05:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.