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authorTom Lane2015-10-05 14:57:15 +0000
committerTom Lane2015-10-05 14:57:50 +0000
commit47b06ecad45ee6f44045fe35c4cfc15dafedc0a0 (patch)
treef5bfc071f5b74b5857b0ac6f3439fd034eac64ba
parentc415a7c8982b37818b9db50e2cb3f349f76550a7 (diff)
Last-minute updates for release notes.
Add entries for security and not-quite-security issues. Security: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
index 93198931f88..ef8eb1c9ad2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
@@ -42,6 +42,20 @@
<listitem>
<para>
+ Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> to detect and report
+ too-short <function>crypt()</> salts (Josh Kupershmidt)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Certain invalid salt arguments crashed the server or disclosed a few
+ bytes of server memory. We have not ruled out the viability of
+ attacks that arrange for presence of confidential information in the
+ disclosed bytes, but they seem unlikely. (CVE-2015-5288)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Fix subtransaction cleanup after a portal (cursor) belonging to an
outer subtransaction fails (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
</para>
@@ -126,6 +140,14 @@
<listitem>
<para>
+ Guard against hard-to-reach stack overflows involving record types,
+ range types, <type>json</>, <type>jsonb</>, <type>tsquery</>,
+ <type>ltxtquery</> and <type>query_int</> (Noah Misch)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Fix handling of <literal>DOW</> and <literal>DOY</> in datetime input
(Greg Stark)
</para>