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Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2017-15099
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‎doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml‎

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Fix sample server-start scripts to become <literal>$PGUSER</literal>
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before opening <literal>$PGLOG</literal> (Noah Misch)
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<para>
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Previously, the postmaster log file was opened while still running as
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root. The database owner could therefore mount an attack against
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another system user by making <literal>$PGLOG</literal> be a symbolic
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link to some other file, which would then become corrupted by appending
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log messages.
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</para>
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<para>
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By default, these scripts are not installed anywhere. Users who have
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made use of them will need to manually recopy them, or apply the same
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changes to their modified versions. If the
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existing <literal>$PGLOG</literal> file is root-owned, it will need to
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be removed or renamed out of the way before restarting the server with
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the corrected script.
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(CVE-2017-12172)
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</para>
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‎doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml‎

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Fix crash due to rowtype mismatch
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in <function>json{b}_populate_recordset()</function>
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(Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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These functions used the result rowtype specified in the <literal>FROM
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... AS</literal> clause without checking that it matched the actual
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rowtype of the supplied tuple value. If it didn't, that would usually
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result in a crash, though disclosure of server memory contents seems
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possible as well.
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(CVE-2017-15098)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix sample server-start scripts to become <literal>$PGUSER</literal>
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before opening <literal>$PGLOG</literal> (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, the postmaster log file was opened while still running as
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root. The database owner could therefore mount an attack against
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another system user by making <literal>$PGLOG</literal> be a symbolic
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link to some other file, which would then become corrupted by appending
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log messages.
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</para>
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<para>
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By default, these scripts are not installed anywhere. Users who have
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made use of them will need to manually recopy them, or apply the same
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changes to their modified versions. If the
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existing <literal>$PGLOG</literal> file is root-owned, it will need to
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be removed or renamed out of the way before restarting the server with
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the corrected script.
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(CVE-2017-12172)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to

‎doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml‎

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Fix crash due to rowtype mismatch
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in <function>json{b}_populate_recordset()</function>
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(Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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These functions used the result rowtype specified in the <literal>FROM
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... AS</literal> clause without checking that it matched the actual
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rowtype of the supplied tuple value. If it didn't, that would usually
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result in a crash, though disclosure of server memory contents seems
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possible as well.
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(CVE-2017-15098)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix sample server-start scripts to become <literal>$PGUSER</literal>
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before opening <literal>$PGLOG</literal> (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, the postmaster log file was opened while still running as
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root. The database owner could therefore mount an attack against
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another system user by making <literal>$PGLOG</literal> be a symbolic
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link to some other file, which would then become corrupted by appending
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log messages.
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</para>
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<para>
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By default, these scripts are not installed anywhere. Users who have
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made use of them will need to manually recopy them, or apply the same
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changes to their modified versions. If the
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existing <literal>$PGLOG</literal> file is root-owned, it will need to
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be removed or renamed out of the way before restarting the server with
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the corrected script.
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(CVE-2017-12172)
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</para>
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Fix crash when logical decoding is invoked from a SPI-using function,

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