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| author | Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> | 2014-12-17 22:48:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> | 2014-12-17 22:48:45 -0500 |
| commit | 6b87d423dc6188a0fed4331bc5c8e4c9c88263d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ee38eae7f83f513f5234d2c64a03775fdb7f2f3 /doc/src | |
| parent | 3f63b38fb252c54a2c40910dee47c2dc46cc7097 (diff) | |
Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows.
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS
user that launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the
vulnerability that commit be76a6d39e2832d4b88c0e1cc381aa44a7f86881
closed on other platforms. Users of "make installcheck" or custom test
harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the
same authentication configuration that "make check" would use.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Security: CVE-2014-0067
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml | 13 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml index 71196a1aca3..504d8daa71b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml @@ -56,19 +56,6 @@ make check <quote>failure</> represents a serious problem. </para> - <warning> - <para> - On systems lacking Unix-domain sockets, notably Windows, this test method - starts a temporary server configured to accept any connection originating - on the local machine. Any local user can gain database superuser - privileges when connecting to this server, and could in principle exploit - all privileges of the operating-system user running the tests. Therefore, - it is not recommended that you use <literal>make check</> on an affected - system shared with untrusted users. Instead, run the tests after - completing the installation, as described in the next section. - </para> - </warning> - <para> Because this test method runs a temporary server, it will not work if you did the build as the root user, since the server will not start as |