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    Restore PGREQUIRESSL recognition in libpq. · 0170b10d
    Noah Misch authored
    Commit 65c3bf19 moved handling of the,
    already then, deprecated requiressl parameter into conninfo_storeval().
    The default PGREQUIRESSL environment variable was however lost in the
    change resulting in a potentially silent accept of a non-SSL connection
    even when set.  Its documentation remained.  Restore its implementation.
    Also amend the documentation to mark PGREQUIRESSL as deprecated for
    those not following the link to requiressl.  Back-patch to 9.3, where
    commit 65c3bf19 first appeared.
    
    Behavior has been more complex when the user provides both deprecated
    and non-deprecated settings.  Before commit 65c3bf19, libpq operated
    according to the first of these found:
    
      requiressl=1
      PGREQUIRESSL=1
      sslmode=*
      PGSSLMODE=*
    
    (Note requiressl=0 didn't override sslmode=*; it would only suppress
    PGREQUIRESSL=1 or a previous requiressl=1.  PGREQUIRESSL=0 had no effect
    whatsoever.)  Starting with commit 65c3bf19, libpq ignored PGREQUIRESSL,
    and order of precedence changed to this:
    
      last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
      PGSSLMODE=*
    
    Starting now, adopt the following order of precedence:
    
      last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
      PGSSLMODE=*
      PGREQUIRESSL=1
    
    This retains the 65c3bf19 behavior for connection strings that contain
    both requiressl=* and sslmode=*.  It retains the 65c3bf19 change that
    either connection string option overrides both environment variables.
    For the first time, PGSSLMODE has precedence over PGREQUIRESSL; this
    avoids reducing security of "PGREQUIRESSL=1 PGSSLMODE=verify-full"
    configurations originating under v9.3 and later.
    
    Daniel Gustafsson
    
    Security: CVE-2017-7485
    0170b10d
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