of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20. This
update patches security holes associated with libxml2 and libxslt, similar to those affecting
other open source projects. All users are urged to update their installations at the first
available opportunity.
This security release fixes a vulnerability in the built-in XML functionality, and a vulnerability
in the XSLT functionality supplied by the optional XML2 extension. Both vulnerabilities allow
reading of arbitrary files by any authenticated database user, and the XSLT vulnerability
allows writing files as well. The fixes cause limited backwards compatibility issues.
These issues correspond to the following two vulnerabilities:
CVE-2012-3488: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxslt
CVE-2012-3489: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxml2
This release also contains several fixes to version 9.1, and a smaller number of fixes to older versions, including:
Updates and corrections to time zone data
Multiple documentation updates and corrections
Add limit on max_wal_senders
Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX.
Correct behavior of unicode conversions for PL/Python
Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT).
Fix syslogger so that log_truncate_on_rotation works in the first rotation.
Only allow autovacuum to be auto-canceled by a directly blocked process.
Improve fsync request queue operation
Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().
Fix Walsender so that it responds correctly to timeouts and deadlocks
Several PL/Perl fixes for encoding-related issues
Make selectivity operators use the correct collation
Prevent unsuitable slaves from being selected for synchronous replication
Make REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions as well
Fix race condition with ENUM comparisons
Make NOTIFY cope with out-of-disk-space
Fix memory leak in ARRAY subselect queries
Reduce data loss at replication failover
Fix behavior of subtransactions with Hot Standby
active branches of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.4,
9.0.8, 8.4.12 and 8.3.19.
Users of the crypt(text, text) function with DES encryption in the optional
pg_crypto module should upgrade their installations immediately, if you have'nt
already updated since the port was patched on May 30. All other database
administrators are urged to upgrade your version of PostgreSQL at the
next scheduled downtime.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2143
Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcryptoâs DES crypt() function
This was fixed in a patch release for the FreeBSD ports on May 30.
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2655
Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural languageâs call handle
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().
In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.
active branches of the PostgreSQL object-relational database system,
including versions 9.1.2, 9.0.6, 8.4.10, 8.3.17 and 8.2.23.
This release contains 52 fixes to version 9.1, and a smaller number of
fixes to older versions, including:
- Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view**
- Correct collations for citext columns and indexes**
- Prevent possible crash when joining to a scalar function
- Prevent transitory data corruption of GIN indexes after a crash
- Prevent data corruption on TOAST columns when copying data
- Fix failures during hot standby startup
- Correct another "variable not found in subplan target list" bug
- Fix bug with sorting on aggregate expressions in windowing functions
- Multiple bug fixes for pg_upgrade
- Change Foreign Key creation order to better support
self-referential keys**
- Multiple bug fixes to CREATE EXTENSION
- Ensure that function return type and data returned from PL/perl agree
- Ensure that PL/perl strings are always UTF-8
- Assorted bug fixes for various Extensions
- Updates to the time zone database, particularly to CST6
Changes marked with ** above require additional, post-update steps in
order to fix all described issues.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html
Also, fix a pthread problem in the FreeBSD port. [1]
PR: 160580 [1]
Feature safe: yes
- Remove extra bsd.port.pre.mk include from postgresql82-server
PR: ports/161816 ports/161824 ports/161821
Submitted by: Jason Helfman (jhelfman@e-e.com)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Temporary fix, but will stop the flurry of incoming PRs related.
PR: ports/161779 ports/161774 ports/161791 ports/161771 ports/161769
Submitted by: Many people, original fix suggested by Jason Helfman (jhelfman@e-e.com)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
for all active branches of the PostgreSQL object-relational database system,
including versions 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16 and 8.2.22.
All users are strongly urged to update their installations at the next
scheduled downtime.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1355
Cleanup ports. Better handling of the knob PG_USER.
Also add uuid to 9.0 and 9.1 contrib ports.
Sometimes patches for PostgreSQL touch its configure script. And the
logics inside current Makefiles for the documentation makes the manual
pages (and other stuff) to be dependent of the timestamp of the
top-level configure file. This triggers the rebuild of the manual
pages, but since some additional XML-related tools are needed, this
rebuild can fail.
PR: 159844
Approved by: maintainer timeout (1 month)
Feature safe: yes
The problem with GSSAPI without Kerberos is that configure.in has
very funny logics of choosing GSSAPI libraries:
{{{
if test "$with_gssapi" = yes ; then
if test "$PORTNAME" != "win32"; then
AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gss_init_sec_context, [gssapi_krb5 gss 'gssapi -lkrb5 -lcrypto'], [],
[AC_MSG_ERROR([could not find function 'gss_init_sec_context' required for GSSAPI])])
else
LIBS="$LIBS -lgssapi32"
fi
fi
}}}
This makes configure to happily choose -lgssapi_krb5 when the system
has Kerberos support (NO_KERBEROS is absent), but ld's '--as-needed'
will throw this library away when no Kerberos functions are used and
linker won't produce 'postgres' binary whining about unresolved
symbols:
{{{
cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes \
-Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels \
-fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -L../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib \
-rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib \
-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib' -Wl,-export-dynamic \
[... a bunch of *.o files was stripped ...]
../../src/timezone/pgtz.o ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a -lintl -lssl \
-lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lcrypt -lm -o postgres
libpq/auth.o: In function `pg_GSS_error':
auth.c:(.text+0x6e): undefined reference to `gss_display_status'
auth.c:(.text+0x8e): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
auth.c:(.text+0xc5): undefined reference to `gss_display_status'
auth.c:(.text+0xe5): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
libpq/auth.o: In function `ClientAuthentication':
auth.c:(.text+0x82d): undefined reference to `gss_delete_sec_context'
auth.c:(.text+0x941): undefined reference to `gss_accept_sec_context'
auth.c:(.text+0x9f1): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
auth.c:(.text+0xaf3): undefined reference to `gss_release_cred'
auth.c:(.text+0xb10): undefined reference to `gss_display_name'
auth.c:(.text+0xbc8): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
auth.c:(.text+0x10b0): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
auth.c:(.text+0x111e): undefined reference to `gss_release_buffer'
libpq/pqcomm.o: In function `pq_close':
pqcomm.c:(.text+0x105a): undefined reference to `gss_delete_sec_context'
pqcomm.c:(.text+0x107d): undefined reference to `gss_release_cred'
gmake: *** [postgres] Error 1
}}}
Also, ports for PostgreSQL 8.4 and 9.0 had their <bsd.port.pre.mk>
misplaced: OPTIONS came after it, so WITH_/WITHOUT_ knobs will not
be really activated.
PR: 160050
Feature safe: yes
Approved by: maintainer timeout (1 month)
This patch is for PostgreSQL 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 9.0.
PostgreSQL 9.1 has it already.
PR: ports/158727
Submitted by: sunpoet (myself)
Approved by: girgen (maintainer timeout, 5 weeks)
This update contains a critical fix to the pg_upgrade utility
which prevents significant downtime issues. Do not use
pg_upgrade without installing this update first.
The issue with pg_upgrade and the fix are detailed on the PostgreSQL
wiki: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix
Users who have already used pg_upgrade should run the database repair
script given on that page on their databases as soon as possible.
See the release notes for each version at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html for a full
list of changes with details.
Allow the username of the postgresql user to configurable for 8.4 and 9.0.
Largely inspired by the work of Jason Helfman [153668, 153136].
Change PGUSER knob to PG_USER not to clash with PGUSER environment.
PR: 153668, 153136, 155493, 155137
This update includes a security fix which prevents a buffer overrun in
the contrib module intarray's input function for the query_int type.
This bug is a security risk since the function's return address could
be overwritten by malicious code.
All supported versions of PostgreSQL are impacted. However, the
affected contrib module is optional. Only users who have installed the
intarray module in their database are affected. See the CVE Advisory
at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4015
This release includes 63 bugfixes, including:
- Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values
- Fix assignment to an array slice that is before the existing range
of subscripts
- Fix pg_restore to do the right thing when escaping large objects
- Avoid failures when EXPLAIN tries to display a simple-form CASE expression
- Improved build support for Windows version
- Fix bug in contrib/seg's GiST picksplit algorithm which caused
performance degredation
The 9.0.3 update also contains several fixes for issues with features
introduced or changed in version 9.0:
- Ensure all the received WAL is fsync'd to disk before exiting walreceiver
- Improve performance of walreceiver by avoiding excess fsync activity
- Make ALTER TABLE revalidate uniqueness and exclusion constraints when needed
- Fix EvalPlanQual for UPDATE of an inheritance tree when the tables
are not all alike
PR: ports/154436
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4015
Feature safe: yes
Approved by: portmgr
only postgresql90-server does, but since we don't want two different pg_config setups,
one for client and one for server, I'm bringing the libxml dependency on board until
I can find out a better way to solve this.
Also, try to break the previous 1:1 relation between FreeBSD system and
PostgreSQL versions installed. Use different PREFIX:es to install
different versions on the same system.
PR: ports/132402, ports/145002, ports/146657
announces the availability of our most eagerly awaited release.
PostgreSQL 9.0 includes built-in, binary replication, and over a dozen
other major features which will appeal to everyone from web developers
to database hackers.
9.0 includes more major features than any release before it, including:
* Hot standby
* Streaming replication
* In-place upgrades
* 64-bit Windows builds
* Easy mass permissions management
* Anonymous blocks and named parameter calls for stored procedures
* New windowing functions and ordered aggregates
... and many more. For details on the over 200 additions and
improvements in this version, developed by over a hundred contributors,
please see the release notes.
"These kinds of feature additions continue to make a strong case for why
mission-critical technology tasks can continue to depend on the power,
flexibility and robustness of PostgreSQL,â said Afilias CTO Ram Mohan.
More information on PostgreSQL 9.0:
* Release notes
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0
* Presskit
http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit90
* Guide to 9.0:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.0
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PR: 150430, Add dtrace
