Avoid possible dangling-pointer access in tsearch_readline_callback.
authorTom Lane
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:36:13 +0000 (11:36 -0400)
committerTom Lane
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:36:13 +0000 (11:36 -0400)
commit569f6a89a9153ee05ab429522e835b00b11ad7f9
tree751ed1b687f3ce692fee6fd4d3c2081d4f682ec4
parent29be9983a64c011eac0b9ee29895cce71e15ea77
Avoid possible dangling-pointer access in tsearch_readline_callback.

tsearch_readline() saves the string pointer it returns to the caller
for possible use in the associated error context callback.  However,
the caller will usually pfree that string sometime before it next
calls tsearch_readline(), so that there is a window where an ereport
will try to print an already-freed string.

The built-in users of tsearch_readline() happen to all do that pfree
at the bottoms of their loops, so that the window is effectively
empty for them.  However, this is not documented as a requirement,
and contrib/dict_xsyn doesn't do it like that, so it seems likely
that third-party dictionaries might have live bugs here.

The practical consequences of this seem pretty limited in any case,
since production builds wouldn't clobber the freed string immediately,
besides which you'd not expect syntax errors in dictionary files
being used in production.  Still, it's clearly a bug waiting to bite
somebody.

Fix by pstrdup'ing the string to be saved for the error callback,
and then pfree'ing it next time through.  It's been like this for
a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/48A4FA71-524E-41B9-953A-FD04EF36E2E7@yesql.se
src/backend/tsearch/ts_locale.c