Re: Fw: Re: heap_force_common in contrib/pg_surgery/heap_surgery.c has an off by one stack buffer overflow

surya poondla <suryapoondla4@gmail.com>

From: surya poondla <suryapoondla4@gmail.com>
To: "violin0613@tju.edu.cn" <violin0613@tju.edu.cn>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2026-06-03T22:31:27Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

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Hi 王跃林,

Thank you for reporting the issue, I am able to reproduce it on master.
The include_this_tid[] array is sized MaxHeapTuplesPerPage but indexed
using 1-based OffsetNumber,
so the largest legal offset (MaxHeapTuplesPerPage itself) lands one slot
past the end.

psql (19beta1)

Type "help" for help.


postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_surgery;

CREATE EXTENSION

postgres=# CREATE TABLE vuln_005_t();

CREATE TABLE

postgres=# INSERT INTO vuln_005_t SELECT FROM generate_series(1, 291);

INSERT 0 291

postgres=# SELECT heap_force_freeze('vuln_005_t'::regclass, ARRAY['(0,
291)']::tid[]);

server closed the connection unexpectedly

        This probably means the server terminated abnormally

        before or while processing the request.

The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.

The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.

!?> q

-?> q

-?>

!?> quit

Proposed patch attached.  It does two things:
1. Resize include_this_tid[] to MaxHeapTuplesPerPage + 1 so every legal
1-based offset has a slot.  This removes the structural off-by-one
2. Extend the per-TID input check to also reject offno > MaxHeapTuplesPerPage,
so a corrupted page whose pd_lower lets max offset exceed the structural
maximum cannot reach the array either.

With the patch I no longer see the crash

postgres=#   DROP TABLE IF EXISTS vuln_005_t;

DROP TABLE

postgres=#   DROP EXTENSION IF EXISTS pg_surgery;

DROP EXTENSION

postgres=#

postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION pg_surgery;

CREATE EXTENSION

postgres=# CREATE TABLE vuln_005_t();

CREATE TABLE

postgres=# INSERT INTO vuln_005_t SELECT FROM generate_series(1, 291);

INSERT 0 291

postgres=# SELECT count(*) FROM vuln_005_t;

 count

-------

   291

(1 row)


postgres=# SELECT heap_force_freeze('vuln_005_t'::regclass, ARRAY['(0,
291)']::tid[]);

 heap_force_freeze

-------------------



(1 row)

Regards,
Surya Poondla

Commits

  1. pg_surgery: Fix off-by-one bug with heap offset