[pgpool-committers: 10495] pgpool: Suppress unnecessary information upon authentication failure.

Tatsuo Ishii ishii at postgresql.org
Sat May 17 15:31:58 JST 2025


Suppress unnecessary information upon authentication failure.

Previously a message "password size does not match" was displayed when
client authentication failed.  This could help an attacker to guess
password. Replace it just "password does not match".

Backpatch-through: v4.2

Branch
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V4_3_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgpool2.git;a=commitdiff;h=14ae9365b025df8b3b0bf75126e2d7f485d1c9ad

Modified Files
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src/auth/pool_auth.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)



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