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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 28 21:51:33 PST 2008


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Sure enough.

I just pushed out 3.61-pre6 which fixes this problem.  Thanks for the 
report!

	-hpa




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