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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-03-29 11:54:57 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2016-03-29 11:55:19 -0400
commit7abc1571652a924ba4258bda0a26df2de03b790e (patch)
treed606955e4a266c6ebf185c2ce87bf0f8f391ffdb /src/backend/port/win32
parent61d66c44f18c73094a50a2ef97d26cc03e171dc0 (diff)
downloadpostgresql-7abc1571652a924ba4258bda0a26df2de03b790e.tar.gz
Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' FormatMessage() function.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag, it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well. Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of. Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/port/win32')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/port/win32/socket.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c b/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
index d1ea578b1f..747304cee4 100644
--- a/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
+++ b/src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
@@ -658,7 +658,9 @@ pgwin32_socket_strerror(int err)
}
ZeroMemory(&wserrbuf, sizeof(wserrbuf));
- if (FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE,
+ if (FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS |
+ FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
+ FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE,
handleDLL,
err,
MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),