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authorFujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>2015-07-09 22:30:52 +0900
committerFujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>2015-07-09 22:30:52 +0900
commitc2e5f4d1c16faa84a19906706481cf149769f320 (patch)
treec91df42a1513684acc332a7d37ac8bf7bcfdd3e0 /src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
parent23b8928829038ef3fba5a04e4f2707c6034464c4 (diff)
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Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.
When enabling wal_compression, there is a risk to leak data similarly to the BREACH and CRIME attacks on SSL where the compression ratio of a full page image gives a hint of what is the existing data of this page. This vulnerability is quite cumbersome to exploit in practice, but doable. So this patch makes wal_compression PGC_SUSET in order to prevent non-superusers from enabling it and exploiting the vulnerability while DBA thinks the risk very seriously and disables it in postgresql.conf. Back-patch to 9.5 where wal_compression was introduced.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index 595a609989d..1bed5250a6c 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
},
{
- {"wal_compression", PGC_USERSET, WAL_SETTINGS,
+ {"wal_compression", PGC_SUSET, WAL_SETTINGS,
gettext_noop("Compresses full-page writes written in WAL file."),
NULL
},