Re: Security Patch 2012-05-30 - Mailing list pgsql-announce

From Jan Lentfer
Subject Re: Security Patch 2012-05-30
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In response to Security Patch 2012-05-30  (Selena Deckelmann <selena@postgresql.org>)
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Am 30.05.2012 20:38, schrieb Selena Deckelmann:
> Today the PHP, OpenBSD and FreeBSD communities announced updates to
> patch a security hole involving their crypt() hashing algorithms.
> This issue is described in CVE-2012-2143
> (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2143). This
> vulnerability also affects a minority of PostgreSQL users, and will be
> fixed in an update release on June 4, 2012.
>
Just for completeness: DragonFly BSD has adressed the problem already, too

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-05/msg00097.html
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2012-05/msg00205.html

Jan

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