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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-09-03 16:18:01 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-09-03 16:18:01 -0400
commitf655a9fd2677c76f3181c3c43c503da1607c2cdf (patch)
treee450a2446018dc3ee1096c6ff3d5bbffccdb8645
parentcbd51548dc1869fde58b621ea3c2fc9386947ea9 (diff)
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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.
-rw-r--r--src/port/rand.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/port/rand.c b/src/port/rand.c
index b4631299e99..317a3eaeccb 100644
--- a/src/port/rand.c
+++ b/src/port/rand.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ srand48(long seed)
{
_rand48_seed[0] = RAND48_SEED_0;
_rand48_seed[1] = (unsigned short) seed;
- _rand48_seed[2] = (unsigned short) (seed > 16);
+ _rand48_seed[2] = (unsigned short) (seed >> 16);
_rand48_mult[0] = RAND48_MULT_0;
_rand48_mult[1] = RAND48_MULT_1;
_rand48_mult[2] = RAND48_MULT_2;