From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:42:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Restrict file mode creation mask during tmpfile().
X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_19~28
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5dc49efe9012793110ef5dab9a9a1a7730a70e3f;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Restrict file mode creation mask during tmpfile().

Per Coverity.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

Michael Paquier, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Heikki Linnakangas.
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diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
index bd2ba7add95..7995f6e19f2 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
@@ -372,8 +372,18 @@ tarOpen(ArchiveHandle *AH, const char *filename, char mode)
 	}
 	else
 	{
+		int			old_umask;
+
 		tm = calloc(1, 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
@@ -408,6 +418,8 @@ tarOpen(ArchiveHandle *AH, const char *filename, char mode)
 		if (tm->tmpFH == NULL)
 			die_horribly(AH, modulename, "could not generate temporary file name: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 
+		umask(old_umask);
+
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
 
 		if (AH->compression != 0)