Back-port CVE fixes from 14.14 PostgreSQL#1807
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Many process environment variables (e.g. PATH), bypass the containment
expected of a trusted PL. Hence, trusted PLs must not offer features
that achieve setenv(). Otherwise, an attacker having USAGE privilege on
the language often can achieve arbitrary code execution, even if the
attacker lacks a database server operating system user.
To fix PL/Perl, replace trusted PL/Perl %ENV with a tied hash that just
replaces each modification attempt with a warning. Sites that reach
these warnings should evaluate the application-specific implications of
proceeding without the environment modification:
Can the application reasonably proceed without the modification?
If no, switch to plperlu or another approach.
If yes, the application should change the code to stop attempting
environment modifications. If that's too difficult, add "untie
%main::ENV" in any code executed before the warning. For example,
one might add it to the start of the affected function or even to
the plperl.on_plperl_init setting.
In passing, link to Perl's guidance about the Perl features behind the
security posture of PL/Perl.
Back-patch to v12 (all supported versions).
Andrew Dunstan and Noah Misch
Security: CVE-2024-10979
If a CTE, subquery, sublink, security invoker view, or coercion projection references a table with row-level security policies, we neglected to mark the plan as potentially dependent on which role is executing it. This could lead to later executions in the same session returning or hiding rows that should have been hidden or returned instead. Reported-by: Wolfgang Walther Reviewed-by: Noah Misch Security: CVE-2024-10976 Backpatch-through: 12
v14 and earlier use generated test files, which require being .gitignore'd to avoid git complaints when testing in-tree. Security: CVE-2024-10979
v16 commit 8fe3e69 used REGRESS_OPTS in a way needing this. That broke "vcregress plcheck". Back-patch v16..v12; newer versions don't have this build system.
TestUpgradeXversion knows how to make the main regression database's references to pg_regress.so be version-independent. But it doesn't do that for plperl's database, so that the C function added by commit b7e3a52a8 is causing cross-version upgrade test failures. Path of least resistance is to just drop the function at the end of the new test. In <= v14, also take the opportunity to clean up the generated test files. Security: CVE-2024-10979
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Security: CVE-2024-10976, CVE-2024-10977, CVE-2024-10979