pg_locale_icu.c was full of places where a very long input string could cause integer overflow while calculating a buffer size, leading to buffer overruns. It also was cavalier about using char-type local arrays as buffers holding arrays of UChar. The alignment of a char[] variable isn't guaranteed, so that this risked failure on alignment-picky platforms. The lack of complaints suggests that such platforms are very rare nowadays; but it's likely that we are paying a performance price on rather more platforms. Declare those arrays as UChar[] instead, keeping their physical size the same. pg_locale_libc.c's strncoll_libc_win32_utf8() also had the disease of assuming it could double or quadruple the input string length without concern for overflow. Reported-by: Xint Code Reported-by: Pavel Kohout <pavel.kohout@aisle.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Backpatch-through: 14 Security: CVE-2026-6473
PostgreSQL Database Management System
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PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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