advisable to reindex them after updating. See the fourth changelog

Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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Tighten security checks in planner estimation functions

(Dean Rasheed)

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<para>

The fix for CVE-2017-7484, plus followup fixes, intended to prevent

leaky functions from being applied to statistics data for columns

that the calling user does not have permission to read. Two gaps in

that protection have been found. One gap applies to partitioning

and inheritance hierarchies where RLS policies on the tables should

restrict access to statistics data, but did not.

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<para>

The other gap applies to cases where the query accesses a table via

a view, and the view owner has permissions to read the underlying

table but the calling user does not have permissions on the view.

The view owner's permissions satisfied the security checks, and the

leaky function would get applied to the underlying table's

statistics before we check the calling user's permissions on the

view. This has been fixed by making security checks on views occur

at the start of planning. That might cause permissions failures to

occur earlier than before.

</para>

<para>

The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Project thanks

Dean Rasheed for reporting this problem.

(CVE-2025-8713)

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<para>

Prevent <application>pg_dump</application> scripts from being used

to attack the user running the restore (Nathan Bossart)

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<para>

Since dump/restore operations typically involve running SQL commands

as superuser, the target database installation must trust the source

server. However, it does not follow that the operating system user

who executes <application>psql</application> to perform the restore

should have to trust the source server. The risk here is that an

attacker who has gained superuser-level control over the source

server might be able to cause it to emit text that would be

interpreted as <application>psql</application> meta-commands.

That would provide shell-level access to the restoring user's own

account, independently of access to the target database.

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<para>

To provide a positive guarantee that this can't happen,

extend <application>psql</application> with

a <command>\restrict</command> command that prevents execution of

further meta-commands, and teach <application>pg_dump</application>

to issue that before any data coming from the source server.

</para>

<para>

The PostgreSQL Project thanks Martin Rakhmanov, Matthieu Denais, and

RyotaK for reporting this problem.

(CVE-2025-8714)

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<para>

Convert newlines to spaces in names included in comments

in <application>pg_dump</application> output

(Noah Misch)

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Object names containing newlines offered the ability to inject

arbitrary SQL commands into the output script. (Without the

preceding fix, injection of <application>psql</application>

meta-commands would also be possible this way.)

CVE-2012-0868 fixed this class of problem at the time, but later

work reintroduced several cases.

</para>

<para>

The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Project thanks

Noah Misch for reporting this problem.

(CVE-2025-8715)

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