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-rw-r--r--src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
index 8730c5ea914..532eacc066e 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
@@ -379,8 +379,18 @@ tarOpen(ArchiveHandle *AH, const char *filename, char mode)
}
else
{
+ int old_umask;
+
tm = pg_malloc0(sizeof(TAR_MEMBER));
+ /*
+ * POSIX does not require, but permits, tmpfile() to restrict file
+ * permissions. Given an OS crash after we write data, the filesystem
+ * might retain the data but forget tmpfile()'s unlink(). If so, the
+ * file mode protects confidentiality of the data written.
+ */
+ old_umask = umask(S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO);
+
#ifndef WIN32
tm->tmpFH = tmpfile();
#else
@@ -415,6 +425,8 @@ tarOpen(ArchiveHandle *AH, const char *filename, char mode)
if (tm->tmpFH == NULL)
exit_horribly(modulename, "could not generate temporary file name: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ umask(old_umask);
+
#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
if (AH->compression != 0)