adminpack: Revoke EXECUTE on pg_logfile_rotate()

In 9.6, we moved a number of functions over to using the GRANT system to
control access instead of having hard-coded superuser checks.

As it turns out, adminpack was creating another function in the catalog
for one of those backend functions where the superuser check was
removed, specifically pg_rotate_logfile(), but it didn't get the memo
about having to REVOKE EXECUTE on the alternative-name function
(pg_logfile_rotate()), meaning that in any installations with adminpack
on 9.6 and higher, any user is able to run the pg_logfile_rotate()
function, which then calls pg_rotate_logfile() and rotates the logfile.

Fix by adding a new version of adminpack (1.1) which handles the REVOKE.
As this function should have only been available to the superuser, this
is a security issue, albeit a minor one.

Security: CVE-2018-1115

diff --git a/contrib/adminpack/Makefile b/contrib/adminpack/Makefile
index f065f84bfb1114ca4685520293a6be75d71539fa..0f7902f2060851b406893ee234183e173bf50450 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/adminpack/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/adminpack/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ OBJS = adminpack.o $(WIN32RES)
 PG_CPPFLAGS = -I$(libpq_srcdir)
 
 EXTENSION = adminpack
-DATA = adminpack--1.0.sql
+DATA = adminpack--1.0.sql adminpack--1.0--1.1.sql
 PGFILEDESC = "adminpack - support functions for pgAdmin"
 
 ifdef USE_PGXS

diff --git a/contrib/adminpack/adminpack--1.0--1.1.sql b/contrib/adminpack/adminpack--1.0--1.1.sql
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..bb58165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/adminpack/adminpack--1.0--1.1.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/* contrib/adminpack/adminpack--1.0--1.1.sql */
+
+-- complain if script is sourced in psql, rather than via ALTER EXTENSION
+\echo Use "ALTER EXTENSION adminpack UPDATE TO '1.1'" to load this file. \quit
+
+REVOKE EXECUTE ON FUNCTION pg_catalog.pg_logfile_rotate() FROM PUBLIC;

diff --git a/contrib/adminpack/adminpack.control b/contrib/adminpack/adminpack.control
index c79413f378c98d844d51c9b736e158b85e3ddc9b..71f6ad5ddf94b74cbe1979f702cb26acdcae89b9 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/adminpack/adminpack.control
+++ b/contrib/adminpack/adminpack.control
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # adminpack extension
 comment = 'administrative functions for PostgreSQL'
-default_version = '1.0'
+default_version = '1.1'
 module_pathname = '$libdir/adminpack'
 relocatable = false
 schema = pg_catalog