The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24. This release fixes two security issues as well as bugs reported over the last three months.
SECURITY ISSUES:
CVE-2018-10915: CERTAIN HOST CONNECTION PARAMETERS DEFEAT CLIENT-SIDE SECURITY DEFENSES
CVE-2018-10925: MEMORY DISCLOSURE AND MISSING AUTHORIZATION IN INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE
BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
Several fixes related to VACUUM, including an issue that could lead to data corruption in certain system catalog tables
Several fixes for replaying write-ahead logs, including a case where a just-promoted standby server would not restart if it crashed before its first post-recovery checkpoint
Several performance improvements for replaying write-ahead logs
Several fixes for logical replication and logical decoding, including ensuring logical WAL senders are reporting the streaming state correctly
Allow replication slots to be dropped in single-user mode
Fix to have variance and similar aggregate functions return accurate results when executed using parallel query
Fix SQL-standard FETCH FIRST syntax to allow parameters ($n), as the standard expects
Fix to ensure that a process doing a parallel index scan will respond to signals, such as one to abort a query
Fix EXPLAIN's accounting for resource usage, particularly buffer accesses, in parallel workers
Several fixes for the query planner including improving the cost estimates for hash-joins and choosing to use indexes for mergejoins on composite type columns
Fix performance regression related to POSIX semaphores for multi-CPU systems running Linux or FreeBSD
Fix for GIN indexes that could lead to an assertion failure after a pg_upgrade from a version before PostgreSQL 9.4
Fix for SHOW ALL to display superuser configuration settings to roles that are allowed to read all settings
Fix issue where COPY FROM .. WITH HEADER would drop a line after every 4,294,967,296 lines processed
Several fixes for XML support, including using the document node as the context for XPath queries as defined in the SQL standard, which affects the xpath and xpath_exists functions, as well as XMLTABLE
Fix libpq for certain cases where hostaddr is used
Several ecpg fixes for Windows
Fix password prompting in Windows client programs so that echo is properly disabled
Several pg_dump fixes, including correctly outputting REPLICA IDENTITY properties for constraint indexes
Make pg_upgrade check that the old server was shut down cleanly
PostgreSQL 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22:
The purpose of this release is to address CVE-2018-1058, which describes how a user can create like-named objects in different schemas that can change the behavior of other users' queries and cause unexpected or malicious behavior, also known as a "trojan-horse" attack. Most of this release centers around added documentation that describes the issue and how to take steps to mitigate the impact on PostgreSQL databases.
This release fixes two security issues. This release also fixes issues with VACUUM, GIN indexes, and hash indexes that could lead to data corruption, as well as fixes for using parallel queries and logical replication.
Security Issues
* CVE-2018-1052: Fix the processing of partition keys containing multiple expressions
* CVE-2018-1053: Ensure that all temporary files made with "pg_upgrade" are non-world-readable
Bug Fixes and Improvements
* Fix crash and potential disclosure of backend memory when processing partition keys containing multiple expressions
* Fix potential disclosure of temporary files containing database passwords created by pg_upgrade by not allowing these files to be world-accessible
* Fix cases where VACUUM would not remove dead rows if they were updated while "key-share" locked, leading to potential data corruption
* Fix for GIN indexes to prevent bloat by ensuring the pending-insertions list is cleaned up by VACUUM
* Fix potential index corruption with hash indexes due to failure to mark metapages as dirty
* Fix several potential crash scenarios for parallel queries, including when a bitmap heap scan cannot allocate memory
* Fix several potential hang-ups in parallel queries, including when a parallel worker fails to start
* Fix collection of EXPLAIN statistics from parallel workers
* Prevent fake deadlock failures when multiple sessions are running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
* Fix for trigger behavior when using logical replication
* Several fixes for "walsender" functionality to improve stability as well as visibility into the replication process
* Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed transactions
* Several fixes for identity columns, including disallowing identity columns on tables derived from composite types and partitions
* Fix handling of list partitioning constraints for partition keys of boolean and array types
* Fix incorrectly generated plans for UPDATE and DELETE queries when a table has a mix of inherited regular and foreign child tables
* Fix incorrect query results from cases involving GROUPING SETS when used with flattened subqueries
* Fix UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT over zero columns, e.g. "SELECT UNION SELECT;"
* Several fixes for subqueries within a LATERAL subquery
* Several improvements for query planning estimation
* Allow a client that supports SCRAM channel binding, such as a future version of PostgreSQL or libpq, to connect to a PostgreSQL 10 server
* Fix sample INSTR() functions used to help transition from Oracle(r) PL/SQL to PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL to correctly match Oracle functional behavior
* Fix pg_dump to make permissions (ACL), security label, and comment entries reliably identifiable in archive outputs
* Modify behavior for contrib/cube's "cube ~> int" operator to make it compatible with KNN search. This is a backwards incompatible change and any expression indexes or materialized views using this operator will need to be reindexed and refreshed, respectively.
* Several fixes in contrib/postgres_fdw to prevent query planner errors
* Added modern examples of auto-start scripts for PostgreSQL on macOS in the contrib/start-scripts/macos directory
* Several fixes for Windows, including postmaster startup and compatibility with libperl
* Spinlock fixes and support for Motorola 68K and 88K architectures
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 10.1, 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, 9.3.20, and 9.2.24. This release fixes three security issues. This release also fixes issues found in BRIN indexing, logical replication and other bugs reported over the past three months.
All users using the affected versions of PostgreSQL should update as soon as possible. If you use BRIN indexes or contrib/start-scripts, please see the release notes for additional post-upgrade steps.
Security Issues
Three security vulnerabilities have been fixed by this release:
CVE-2017-12172: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files
CVE-2017-15098: Memory disclosure in JSON functions
CVE-2017-15099: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges
Bug Fixes and Improvements
This update also fixes a number of bugs reported in the last few months. Some of these issues affect only version 10, but many affect all supported versions:
Fix a race condition in BRIN indexing that could cause some rows to not be included in the indexing.
Fix crash when logical decoding is invoked from a PL language function.
Several fixes for logical replication.
Restored behavior for CTEs attached to INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements to pre-version 10.
Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings.
Do not evaluate an aggregate function's argument expressions when the conditions in the FILTER clause evaluate to FALSE. This complies with SQL-standard behavior.
Fix incorrect query results when multiple GROUPING SETS columns contain the same simple variable.
Fix memory leak over the lifespan of a query when evaluating a set-returning function from the target list in a SELECT.
Several fixes for parallel query execution, including fixing a crash in the parallel execution of certain queries that contain a certain type of bitmap scan.
Fix json_build_array(), json_build_object(), jsonb_build_array(), and jsonb_build_object() to handle explicit VARIADIC arguments correctly.
Prevent infinite float values from being casted to the numeric type.
Fix autovacuum's “work item” logic to prevent possible crashes and silent loss of work items.
Several fixes for VIEWs around adding columns to the end of a view.
Fix for hashability detection of range data types that are created by a user.
Improvements on using extended statistics on columns for the purposes of query planning.
Prevent idle_in_transaction_session_timeout from being ignored when a statement_timeout occurred earlier.
Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due more than 2 billion transactions processing before any queries are executed in the session.
Several file system interaction fixes.
Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails in COPY or lo_export().
Fix pg_dump to ensure that it emits GRANT commands in a valid order.
Fix pg_basebackup's matching of tablespace paths to canonicalize both paths before comparing to help improve Windows compatibility.
Fix libpq to not require user's home directory to exist when trying to read the "~/.pgpass" file.
Several fixes for ecpg.
Security Issues
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Two security holes have been closed by this release:
CVE-2016-5423: certain nested CASE expressions can cause the server to crash.
CVE-2016-5424: database and role names with embedded special characters can allow code injection during administrative operations like pg_dumpall.
The fix for the second issue also adds an option, -reuse-previous, to psql's \connect command. pg_dumpall will also refuse to handle database and role names containing line breaks after the update. For more information on these issues and how they affect backwards-compatibility, see the Release Notes.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
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This update also fixes a number of bugs reported in the last few months. Some of these issues affect only version 9.5, but many affect all supported versions:
Fix misbehaviors of IS NULL/IS NOT NULL with composite values
Fix three areas where INSERT ... ON CONFLICT failed to work properly with other SQL features.
Make INET and CIDR data types properly reject bad IPv6 values
Prevent crash in "point ## lseg" operator for NaN input
Avoid possible crash in pg_get_expr()
Fix several one-byte buffer over-reads in to_number()
Don't needlessly plan query if WITH NO DATA is specified
Avoid crash-unsafe state in expensive heap_update() paths
Fix hint bit update during WAL replay of row locking operations
Avoid unnecessary "could not serialize access" with FOR KEY SHARE
Avoid crash in postgres -C when the specified variable is a null string
Fix two issues with logical decoding and subtransactions
Ensure that backends see up-to-date statistics for shared catalogs
Prevent possible failure when vacuuming multixact IDs in an upgraded database
When a manual ANALYZE specifies columns, don't reset changes_since_analyze
Fix ANALYZE's overestimation of n_distinct for columns with nulls
Fix bug in b-tree mark/restore processing
Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes
Prevent infinite loop in GiST index build with NaN values
Fix possible crash during a nearest-neighbor indexscan
Fix "PANIC: failed to add BRIN tuple" error
Prevent possible crash during background worker shutdown
Many fixes for issues in parallel pg_dump and pg_restore
Make pg_basebackup accept -Z 0 as no compression
Make regression tests safe for Danish and Welsh locales
into the binary packages. Fixes problems with building software
manually against binary postgresql*-client packages built under an
unprivileged setup. Bump respective PKGREVISION.
See https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/issues/377
This release closes security hole CVE-2016-2193, where a query plan might get reused for more than one ROLE in the same session. This could cause the wrong set of Row Level Security (RLS) policies to be used for the query.
The update also fixes CVE-2016-3065, a server crash bug triggered by using pageinspect with BRIN index pages. Since an attacker might be able to expose a few bytes of server memory, this crash is being treated as a security issue.
Security Fixes
* CVE-2015-0241 Buffer overruns in "to_char" functions.
* CVE-2015-0242 Buffer overrun in replacement printf family of functions.
* CVE-2015-0243 Memory errors in functions in the pgcrypto extension.
* CVE-2015-0244 An error in extended protocol message reading.
* CVE-2014-8161 Constraint violation errors can cause display of values in columns which the user would not normally have rights to see.
JSON and JSONB Unicode Escapes
Other Fixes and Improvements
* Cope with the non-ASCII Norwegian Windows locale name.
* Avoid data corruption when databases are moved to new tablespaces and back again.
* Ensure that UNLOGGED tables are correctly copied during ALTER DATABASE operations.
* Avoid deadlocks when locking recently modified rows.
* Fix two SELECT FOR UPDATE query issues.
* Prevent false negative for shortest-first regular expression matches.
* Fix false positives and negatives in tsquery contains operator.
* Fix namespace handling in xpath().
* Prevent row-producing functions from creating empty column names.
* Make autovacuum use per-table cost_limit and cost_delay settings.
* When autovacuum=off, limit autovacuum work to wraparound prevention only.
* Multiple fixes for logical decoding in 9.4.
* Fix transient errors on hot standby queries due to page replacement.
* Prevent duplicate WAL file archiving at end of recovery or standby promotion.
* Prevent deadlock in parallel restore of schema-only dump.
This update fixes CVE-2014-0060, in which PostgreSQL did not properly enforce the WITH ADMIN OPTION permission for ROLE management.
This update also fixes some issues which affect binary replication and row locking, and can cause recoverable data corruption in some cases.
In addition to the above, the following issues are fixed in this release:
Fix WAL logging of visibility map change
Make sure that GIN indexes log all insertions
Get pause_at_recovery_target to pause at correct time
Ensure walreceiver sends hot-standby feedback messages on time
Prevent timeout interrupts from taking control away from mainline code
Eliminate several race conditions
Fix some broken HINTs in error messages
Prevent server lockup on SSL connection loss
Fix two Unicode handling issues
Prevent crash on certain subselect syntax
Prevent crash on select from zero column table
Fix two bugs with LATERAL
Fix issue with UNION ALL, partitioning, and updates
Ensure that ANALYZE understands domains over ranges
Eliminate permissions check when using default tablespace
Fix memory leakage in JSON functions
Allow extensions with event triggers
Distinguish numbers correctly in JSON output
Fix permissions for pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup()
Accept SHIFT_JIS as locale name
Fix .* expansion for SQL function variables
Prevent infinite loop on some COPY connection failures
Several fixes for client issues on Windows
Enable building PostgreSQL with Visual Studio 2013
Update time zone files for recent changes
* Add materialized views
* Make simple views auto-updatable
* Add many features for the JSON data type, including operators and functions to extract elements from JSON values
* Implement SQL-standard LATERAL option for FROM-clause subqueries and function calls
* Allow foreign data wrappers to support writes (inserts/updates/deletes) on foreign tables
* Add a Postgres foreign data wrapper to allow access to other Postgres servers
* Add support for event triggers
* Add optional ability to checksum data pages and report corruption
* Prevent non-key-field row updates from blocking foreign key checks
* Greatly reduce System V shared memory requirements
