Last-minute updates for release notes.

Security: CVE-2019-10129, CVE-2019-10130

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
index 9c7ab273c34..0a409491efb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml
@@ -35,6 +35,28 @@
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
+      Prevent row-level security policies from being bypassed via
+      selectivity estimators (Dean Rasheed)
+     </para>
+
+     <para>
+      Some of the planner's selectivity estimators apply user-defined
+      operators to values found in <structname>pg_statistic</structname>
+      (e.g., most-common values).  A leaky operator therefore can disclose
+      some of the entries in a data column, even if the calling user lacks
+      permission to read that column.  In CVE-2017-7484 we added
+      restrictions to forestall that, but we failed to consider the
+      effects of row-level security.  A user who has SQL permission to
+      read a column, but who is forbidden to see certain rows due to RLS
+      policy, might still learn something about those rows' contents via a
+      leaky operator.  This patch further tightens the rules, allowing
+      leaky operators to be applied to statistics data only when there is
+      no relevant RLS policy.  (CVE-2019-10130)
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
       Fix behavior for an <command>UPDATE</command>
       or <command>DELETE</command> on an inheritance tree or partitioned
       table in which every table can be excluded (Amit Langote, Tom Lane)
@@ -189,6 +211,23 @@
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
+      Check the appropriate user's permissions when enforcing rules about
+      letting a leaky operator see <structname>pg_statistic</structname>
+      data (Dean Rasheed)
+     </para>
+
+     <para>
+      When an underlying table is being accessed via a view, consider the
+      privileges of the view owner while deciding whether leaky operators
+      may be applied to the table's statistics data, rather than the
+      privileges of the user making the query.  This makes the planner's
+      rules about what data is visible match up with the executor's,
+      avoiding unnecessarily-poor plans.
+     </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+     <para>
       Speed up planning when there are many equality conditions and many
       potentially-relevant foreign key constraints (David Rowley)
      </para>