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Subject: pgsql: Guard against overlength time zone abbreviations in to_char().
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:23 +0000
Message-ID: <E1wtQFn-00000000y6z-2rl5@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
Guard against overlength time zone abbreviations in to_char().
While typical abbreviations are only a few bytes long, a user-supplied
time_zone setting could specify a much longer abbreviation, enough to
overflow to_char's allocation of 12 bytes per format character. If so,
throw an error in the same style as commit 9241c84cb (CVE-2015-0241).
Reported-by: Hcamael <baiyjrh@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Amjad Shahzad <amjadshahzad2000@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Tan Zhen of AntAISecurityLab <TanZhen.AntAI@outlook.com>
Reported-by: Tomer Fichman <tomer@irregular.com>
Reported-by: Zheng Yu <zheng@depthfirst.com>
Reported-by: Amy Burnett (OpenAI Codex Security)
Reported-by: Rick de Jager <rick@v12.sh>
Reported-by: Heewon Song <asteria121@78researchlab.com>
Reported-by: Sylvie Mayer <smayer@cloudflare.com>
Reported-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>
Reported-by: Hillai Ben Sasson <hillai.bensasson@wiz.io>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-14669
Branch
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REL_18_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4fafe23805c4c75c2e85e8a0c1675fd17d92977b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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