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From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: ecpg: Fix out-of-bound writes due to processing of invalid bytea
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:27 +0000
Message-ID: <E1wtQFr-00000000yCl-2EDM@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)

ecpg: Fix out-of-bound writes due to processing of invalid bytea data

ECPG assumes that any bytea data it receives from a backend starts with
'\x' as its first two bytes, but a check was missed to enforce that.  A
rogue server sending some garbage bytea data would be able to crash a
client, resulting in a client-side DoS, in the most common cases.

Reported-by: ylwangtju <ylwangtju@qq.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-16241

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c3c830272a97b9b429eb015c2df206264649c6fc
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Modified Files
--------------
src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/data.c                 |  7 ++++++
src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/error.c                |  7 ++++++
src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpgerrno.h            |  1 +
src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/sql-bytea.c      | 27 ++++++++++++++++++----
src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/sql-bytea.stderr | 24 ++++++++++++++++++-
src/interfaces/ecpg/test/sql/bytea.pgc             |  5 ++++
6 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)



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