[syslinux] syslinux-3.61-pre5 tested OK!!!

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 28 14:25:46 PST 2008


Genaldo Leite Nunes wrote:
> I was using MD5, but have now tested  plain and SHA1 passwords.
> To my surprise they both have no such nice "feature" !!!
> This bug is present only in the MD5 code.

Then the problem is almost certainly some kind of uninitialized state in 
the MD5 backend, then.  It probably works the first time because all of 
bss is initialized to zero.

	-hpa




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