[jira] [Created] (DERBY-6429) Privilege checks for UPDATE statements are wrong.

[Rick Hillegas (JIRA)]

Rick Hillegas created DERBY-6429:
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             Summary: Privilege checks for UPDATE statements are wrong.
                 Key: DERBY-6429
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6429
             Project: Derby
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 10.11.0.0
            Reporter: Rick Hillegas


UPDATE statements confuse SELECT and UPDATE privileges. Consider the following 
SET clause:

   SET updateColumn = selectColumn

According to part 2 of the 2011 edition of the SQL Standard, that SET clause 
requires the following privileges:

1) UPDATE privilege on updateColumn. Privileges for the left side of a SET 
clause are described by section 14.14 (update statement: searched), access rule 
1b.

2) SELECT privilege on selectColumn. Privileges for the right side of a SET 
clause are described by section 14.15 (set clause list) and the various 
productions underneath value expression. In this case, we have a column 
reference, whose privileges are governed by section 6.7 (column reference), 
access rule 2.

However, Derby requires the following:

1') UPDATE privilege on both updateColumn and selectColumn

When we address this bug, we should make corresponding changes to the MERGE 
statement.

The following script shows the current behavior:

connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=test_dbo;create=true';

call syscs_util.syscs_create_user( 'TEST_DBO', 'test_dbopassword' );
call syscs_util.syscs_create_user( 'RUTH', 'ruthpassword' );

connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;shutdown=true';

connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=test_dbo;password=test_dbopassword' as dbo;

create table t1_025
(
    a int primary key,
    updateColumn int,
    selectColumn int,
    privateColumn int
);

grant update ( updateColumn ) on t1_025 to ruth;
grant select ( selectColumn ) on t1_025 to ruth;

insert into t1_025 values ( 1, 100, 1000, 10000 );

connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;user=ruth;password=ruthpassword' as ruth;

-- correctly succeeds because ruth has UPDATE privilege on updateColumn
update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = 17;

-- the error message incorrectly states that the missing privilege
-- is UPDATE privilege on privateColumn
update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = privateColumn;

-- incorrectly fails.
-- ruth does have UPDATE privilege on updateColumn
-- and SELECT privilege on selectColumn, which should be good enough.
-- however, the error message incorrectly states that the missing privilege
-- is UPDATE privilege on selectColumn.
update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = selectColumn;

-- incorrectly succeeds even though ruth does not have SELECT privilege on 
updateColumn
update test_dbo.t1_025 set updateColumn = 2 * updateColumn;

set connection dbo;

select * from t1_025 order by a;




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