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.
REL8_2_STABLE
Tom Lane 14 years ago
parent cbd51548dc
commit f655a9fd26
  1. 2
      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;

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