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Add entries for security issues.

Security: CVE-2015-3165 through CVE-2015-3167
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Tom Lane 2015-05-18 12:09:03 -04:00
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<para>
Avoid possible crash when client disconnects just before the
authentication timeout expires (Benkocs Norbert Attila)
</para>
<para>
If the timeout interrupt fired partway through the session shutdown
sequence, SSL-related state would be freed twice, typically causing a
crash and hence denial of service to other sessions. Experimentation
shows that an unauthenticated remote attacker could trigger the bug
somewhat consistently, hence treat as security issue.
(CVE-2015-3165)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Consistently check for failure of the <function>*printf()</> family of
functions (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Most calls of these functions did not consider the possibility that
the functions could fail with, eg, out-of-memory conditions. The usual
result would just be missing output, but crashes or exposure of
unintended information are also possible. To protect against such
risks uniformly, create wrappers around these functions that throw an
error on failure. Also add missing error checks to a few
security-relevant calls of other system functions.
(CVE-2015-3166)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>, uniformly report decryption failures
as <quote>Wrong key or corrupt data</> (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Previously, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key could report
other error message texts. It has been shown that such variance in
error reports can aid attackers in recovering keys from other systems.
While it's unknown whether <filename>pgcrypto</>'s specific behaviors
are likewise exploitable, it seems better to avoid the risk by using a
one-size-fits-all message.
(CVE-2015-3167)
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</listitem>
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<para>
Fix incorrect checking of deferred exclusion constraints after a HOT