postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 27ac667cfd Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process().
libxslt offers the ability to read and write both files and URLs through
stylesheet commands, thus allowing unprivileged database users to both read
and write data with the privileges of the database server.  Disable that
through proper use of libxslt's security options.

Also, remove xslt_process()'s ability to fetch documents and stylesheets
from external files/URLs.  While this was a documented "feature", it was
long regarded as a terrible idea.  The fix for CVE-2012-3489 broke that
capability, and rather than expend effort on trying to fix it, we're just
going to summarily remove it.

While the ability to write as well as read makes this security hole
considerably worse than CVE-2012-3489, the problem is mitigated by the fact
that xslt_process() is not available unless contrib/xml2 is installed,
and the longstanding warnings about security risks from that should have
discouraged prudent DBAs from installing it in security-exposed databases.

Reported and fixed by Peter Eisentraut.

Security: CVE-2012-3488
2012-08-14 18:33:06 -04:00
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adminpack Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
btree_gist Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
chkpass Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
cube Fix bug in cube picksplit algorithm. 2010-11-14 21:28:52 -05:00
dblink Fix a couple of contrib/dblink bugs. 2012-04-03 20:43:35 -04:00
dict_int Fix bogus code in contrib/ tsearch dictionary examples. 2011-11-03 19:18:10 -04:00
dict_xsyn Fix bogus code in contrib/ tsearch dictionary examples. 2011-11-03 19:18:10 -04:00
earthdistance Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
hstore Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
intagg Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
intarray Fix longstanding error in contrib/intarray's int[] & int[] operator. 2012-02-16 20:00:34 -05:00
isn Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
lo Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
ltree Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..." 2010-12-19 12:48:53 -05:00
oid2name Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pageinspect Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pg_buffercache Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pg_freespacemap Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pg_standby Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pg_trgm Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
pgbench Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pgcrypto Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcrypto's DES crypt(). 2012-05-30 10:53:48 -04:00
pgrowlocks Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
pgstattuple Make pgstatindex respond to cancel interrupts. 2011-10-06 12:10:35 -04:00
seg Replace strdup() with pstrdup(), to avoid leaking memory. 2011-05-18 22:36:14 -04:00
spi Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
sslinfo Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
start-scripts Remove inappropriate cd commands, per David Wheeler. Also make 2008-01-16 21:00:25 +00:00
tablefunc Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
test_parser Fix one-byte buffer overrun in contrib/test_parser. 2012-01-09 19:57:55 -05:00
tsearch2 Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs. 2010-09-22 17:23:05 -04:00
uuid-ossp Add missing gitignore file 2011-05-02 01:05:01 +03:00
vacuumlo Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:12 +02:00
xml2 Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process(). 2012-08-14 18:33:06 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Some marginal tweaks to make 'make installcheck' mostly work when 2005-09-27 17:43:31 +00:00
Makefile Fix contrib/xml2 makefile to not override CFLAGS, and in passing make it 2008-05-08 16:49:48 +00:00
README Correct misattribution of earthdistance module --- according to its 2007-12-04 23:45:01 +00:00

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.

Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
script in the top-level directory.  Some directories supply new
user-defined functions, operators, or types.  In these cases, after you have
installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database
system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

adminpack -
	File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
	by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>

btree_gist -
	Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

dict_int -
	Text search dictionary template for integers
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

dict_xsyn -
	Text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

earthdistance -
	Functions for computing distances between two points on Earth
        by Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> and Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> and Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

hstore -
	Module for storing (key, value) pairs
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

isn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
	by Germ<72>n M<>ndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

oid2name - 
	Maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

pageinspect -
	Allows inspection of database pages
	Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

pg_buffercache -
	Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_freespacemap -
	Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_standby -
	Sample archive_command for warm standby operation
	by Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

pg_trgm -
	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

pgrowlocks -
	A function to return row locking information
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgstattuple -
	Functions to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
	space within a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

sslinfo -
	Functions to get information about SSL certificates
	by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time on various platforms.

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

test_parser -
	Sample text search parser
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

tsearch2 -
	Compatibility package for the pre-8.3 implementation of text search.
	Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, based on code originally by
	Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>.

uuid-ossp -
	UUID generation functions
	by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml2 -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>