postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 0206795d25 Replace usages of xmlXPathCompile() with xmlXPathCtxtCompile().
In existing releases of libxml2, xmlXPathCompile can be driven
to stack overflow because it fails to protect itself against
too-deeply-nested input.  While there is an upstream fix as of
yesterday, it will take years for that to propagate into all
shipping versions.  In the meantime, we can protect our own
usages basically for free by calling xmlXPathCtxtCompile instead.

(The actual bug is that libxml2 keeps its nesting counter in the
xmlXPathContext, and its parsing code was willing to just skip
counting nesting levels if it didn't have a context.  So if we supply
a context, all is well.  It seems odd actually that it works at all
to not supply a context, because this means that XPath parsing does
not have access to XML namespace info.  Apparently libxml2 never
checks namespaces until runtime?  Anyway, this seems like good
future-proofing even if its only immediate effect is to dodge a bug.)

Sadly, this hack only offers protection with libxml2 2.9.11 and newer.
Before that there are multiple similar problems, so if you are
processing untrusted XML it behooves you to get a newer version.
But we have some pretty old libxml2 in the buildfarm, so it seems
impractical to add a regression test to verify this fix.

Per bug #18617 from Jingzhou Fu.  Back-patch to all supported
versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18617-1cee4d2ed1f4e7ae@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/799
2024-09-15 13:33:09 -04:00
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adminpack
amcheck Backport BackgroundPsql perl test module 2024-06-27 19:01:25 +03:00
auth_delay
auto_explain Fix ancient memory leak in contrib/auto_explain. 2021-02-02 13:49:08 -05:00
bloom Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr(). 2022-11-17 16:54:31 -05:00
btree_gin btree_gin: Fix calculation of leftmost interval value. 2023-10-29 11:14:33 +00:00
btree_gist Fix results of index-only scans on btree_gist char(N) indexes. 2022-01-08 14:54:39 -05:00
citext CREATE INDEX: use the original userid for more ACL checks. 2022-06-25 09:07:45 -07:00
cube
dblink postgres_fdw: Fix unexpected reporting of empty message. 2021-12-03 17:37:19 +09:00
dict_int
dict_xsyn
earthdistance
file_fdw
fuzzystrmatch Ensure Soundex difference() function handles empty input sanely. 2023-05-16 10:53:42 -04:00
hstore hstore: Tighten key/value parsing check for whitespaces 2023-06-12 09:14:19 +09:00
hstore_plperl
hstore_plpython In hstore_plpython, avoid crashing when return value isn't a mapping. 2023-04-27 11:55:06 -04:00
intagg
intarray Fix integer-overflow problem in intarray's g_int_decompress(). 2024-01-07 15:19:50 -05:00
isn
jsonb_plperl
jsonb_plpython
lo
ltree
ltree_plpython
oid2name
pageinspect Fix contrib/pageinspect's test for sequences. 2024-09-13 10:16:40 -05:00
passwordcheck
pg_buffercache
pg_freespacemap
pg_prewarm Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr(). 2022-11-17 16:54:31 -05:00
pg_standby
pg_stat_statements pg_stat_statements: fetch stmt location/length before it disappears. 2022-11-01 12:48:01 -04:00
pg_trgm Fix misbehavior in contrib/pg_trgm with an unsatisfiable regex. 2023-03-11 12:15:41 -05:00
pg_visibility Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr(). 2022-11-17 16:54:31 -05:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Fix check for buffer size 2024-01-30 11:15:46 +01:00
pgrowlocks Adjust the order of the prechecks in pgrowlocks() 2023-10-31 16:44:27 +13:00
pgstattuple Reintroduce support for sequences in pgstattuple and pageinspect. 2024-09-12 16:31:29 -05:00
postgres_fdw Restrict accesses to non-system views and foreign tables during pg_dump. 2024-08-05 06:05:17 -07:00
seg Fix contrib/seg to be more wary of long input numbers. 2022-12-21 17:51:50 -05:00
sepgsql Adjust sepgsql expected output for 681d9e462 et al. 2023-05-08 11:24:47 -04:00
spi
sslinfo
start-scripts
tablefunc
tcn
test_decoding Fix possibility of logical decoding partial transaction changes. 2024-07-11 22:48:08 +09:00
tsm_system_rows
tsm_system_time
unaccent Add combining characters to unaccent.rules. 2019-02-01 15:23:01 +01:00
uuid-ossp Reject bogus output from uuid_create(3). 2022-09-09 12:41:36 -04:00
vacuumlo
xml2 Replace usages of xmlXPathCompile() with xmlXPathCtxtCompile(). 2024-09-15 13:33:09 -04:00
contrib-global.mk
Makefile
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.