Use ereport(ERROR), not Assert(), for publisher tuples missing columns.

Three locations use Assert() to guard against a mismatch between the
number of columns advertised in the RELATION message and the number
actually received in the subsequent INSERT/UPDATE tuple message. Since
these values originate from the publisher, the check must survive into
production builds.

A malicious or buggy publisher can send a RELATION claiming N columns
and an INSERT claiming M < N columns. The subscriber's apply worker
indexes into colvalues[]/colstatus[] using column indices from the
RELATION message's attribute map, causing a heap out-of-bounds read when
the tuple's column array is smaller than expected. We've looked, without
success, for a scenario in which the publisher holds sufficient control
over these out-of-bounds bytes to exploit this or even to reach a
SIGSEGV. Despite not finding one, the code has been fragile. Back-patch
to v14 (all supported versions).

Reported-by: Varik Matevosyan <varikmatevosyan@gmail.com>
Author: Varik Matevosyan <varikmatevosyan@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+bBoog3cCogktzfLb9bppUByu-10B3CFp8u=iKXG_OvtAguCw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
This commit is contained in:
Noah Misch 2026-05-16 18:01:35 -07:00
parent 4c35d93e49
commit 510a05f07c

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@ -553,9 +553,15 @@ slot_store_data(TupleTableSlot *slot, LogicalRepRelMapEntry *rel,
if (!att->attisdropped && remoteattnum >= 0)
{
StringInfo colvalue = &tupleData->colvalues[remoteattnum];
StringInfo colvalue;
Assert(remoteattnum < tupleData->ncols);
if (remoteattnum >= tupleData->ncols)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION),
errmsg("logical replication column %d not found in tuple: only %d column(s) received",
remoteattnum + 1, tupleData->ncols)));
colvalue = &tupleData->colvalues[remoteattnum];
errarg.remote_attnum = remoteattnum;
@ -677,7 +683,11 @@ slot_modify_data(TupleTableSlot *slot, TupleTableSlot *srcslot,
if (remoteattnum < 0)
continue;
Assert(remoteattnum < tupleData->ncols);
if (remoteattnum >= tupleData->ncols)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION),
errmsg("logical replication column %d not found in tuple: only %d column(s) received",
remoteattnum + 1, tupleData->ncols)));
if (tupleData->colstatus[remoteattnum] != LOGICALREP_COLUMN_UNCHANGED)
{
@ -1421,7 +1431,12 @@ apply_handle_update(StringInfo s)
if (!att->attisdropped && remoteattnum >= 0)
{
Assert(remoteattnum < newtup.ncols);
if (remoteattnum >= newtup.ncols)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROTOCOL_VIOLATION),
errmsg("logical replication column %d not found in tuple: only %d column(s) received",
remoteattnum + 1, newtup.ncols)));
if (newtup.colstatus[remoteattnum] != LOGICALREP_COLUMN_UNCHANGED)
target_rte->updatedCols =
bms_add_member(target_rte->updatedCols,