Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definer
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:08:05 +0000 (22:08 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:08:05 +0000 (22:08 +0000)
commitcef861f20e5781e0db2d66257bb6a257050b9220
tree9d90cee349d60ff00220ffaeeb58237f0b22186c
parent6d64b2394f269f412f5b6c02d22341e278641e20
Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definer
functions.

This extends the previous patch that forbade SETting these variables inside
security-definer functions.  RESET is equally a security hole, since it
would allow regaining privileges of the caller; furthermore it can trigger
Assert failures and perhaps other internal errors, since the code is not
expecting these variables to change in such contexts.  The previous patch
did not cover this case because assign hooks don't really have enough
information, so move the responsibility for preventing this into guc.c.

Problem discovered by Heikki Linnakangas.

Security: no CVE assigned yet, extends CVE-2007-6600
src/backend/commands/variable.c
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
src/include/utils/guc.h