Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients.

This makes the client programs behave as documented regardless of the
connect-time search_path and regardless of user-created objects.  Today,
a malicious user with CREATE permission on a search_path schema can take
control of certain of these clients' queries and invoke arbitrary SQL
functions under the client identity, often a superuser.  This is
exploitable in the default configuration, where all users have CREATE
privilege on schema "public".

This changes behavior of user-defined code stored in the database, like
pg_index.indexprs and pg_extension_config_dump().  If they reach code
bearing unqualified names, "does not exist" or "no schema has been
selected to create in" errors might appear.  Users may fix such errors
by schema-qualifying affected names.  After upgrading, consider watching
server logs for these errors.

The --table arguments of src/bin/scripts clients have been lax; for
example, "vacuumdb -Zt pg_am\;CHECKPOINT" performed a checkpoint.  That
now fails, but for now, "vacuumdb -Zt 'pg_am(amname);CHECKPOINT'" still
performs a checkpoint.

Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Tom Lane, though this fix strategy was not his first choice.
Reported by Arseniy Sharoglazov.

Security: CVE-2018-1058

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c b/contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c
index e5eeec21c15..91da40352b4 100644
--- a/contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c
+++ b/contrib/oid2name/oid2name.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 
+#include "fe_utils/connect.h"
 #include "libpq-fe.h"
 #include "pg_getopt.h"
 
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ sql_conn(struct options * my_opts)
 	PGconn	   *conn;
 	char	   *password = NULL;
 	bool		new_pass;
+	PGresult   *res;
 
 	/*
 	 * Start the connection.  Loop until we have a password if requested by
@@ -322,6 +324,17 @@ sql_conn(struct options * my_opts)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
+	res = PQexec(conn, ALWAYS_SECURE_SEARCH_PATH_SQL);
+	if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
+	{
+		fprintf(stderr, "oid2name: could not clear search_path: %s\n",
+				PQerrorMessage(conn));
+		PQclear(res);
+		PQfinish(conn);
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+	PQclear(res);
+
 	/* return the conn if good */
 	return conn;
 }