| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | pgsql: Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches). |
| Date: | 2011-09-03 20:18:28 |
| Message-ID: | E1Qzwfc-0006CG-18@gemulon.postgresql.org |
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Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches).
">" should be ">>". This typo results in failure to use all of the bits
of the provided seed.
This might rise to the level of a security bug if we were relying on
srand48 for any security-critical purposes, but we are not --- in fact,
it's not used at all unless the platform lacks srandom(), which is
improbable. Even on such a platform the exposure seems minimal.
Reported privately by Andres Freund.
Branch
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REL8_3_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/95e04d3a32dee0069f4b8040d002fce6f0b3154b
Modified Files
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src/port/rand.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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