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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2491-1] postgresql-8.4 security update



* Florian Weimer:

> CVE-2012-2143
> 	The crypt(text, text) function in the pgcrypto contrib module
> 	did not handle certain passwords correctly, ignoring
> 	characters after the first character which does not fall into
> 	the ASCII range.

It's been pointed out to me that this is incorrect.  Only traditional
DES hashes are affected, and the byte which triggers truncation is
0x80 only.


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