Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET.

nmisch · nmisch · commit f4aa3a18a20d · 2016-02-05T20:22:51.000-05:00
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -7264,6 +7264,17 @@ init_custom_variable(const char *name,
 		!process_shared_preload_libraries_in_progress)
 		elog(FATAL, "cannot create PGC_POSTMASTER variables after startup");
 
+	/*
+	 * Before pljava commit 398f3b876ed402bdaec8bc804f29e2be95c75139
+	 * (2015-12-15), two of that module's PGC_USERSET variables facilitated
+	 * trivial escalation to superuser privileges.  Restrict the variables to
+	 * protect sites that have yet to upgrade pljava.
+	 */
+	if (context == PGC_USERSET &&
+		(strcmp(name, "pljava.classpath") == 0 ||
+		 strcmp(name, "pljava.vmoptions") == 0))
+		context = PGC_SUSET;
+
 	gen = (struct config_generic *) guc_malloc(ERROR, sz);
 	memset(gen, 0, sz);
 
