+1

El domingo, 15 de septiembre de 2013 12:13:21 UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro 
escribió:
>
> This is very similar to 2.6.1 but fixes some problem with a missing admin 
> file (also fixed in 2.6.2) and a potential DoS security issue.
>
> The issue was first discovered in Django 
> https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/ 
> We thank them for discovering and reporting it.
>
> In web2py 2.5.x and earlier we suffer from the same problem. This is 
> because while the default password validator checks for length, the check 
> is performed after hashing, before inserting the hashed password in 
> database. In 2.6.1/2 we have a different implementation of the hashing 
> algorithm and we do not know how severe the problem is.
>
> In any case 2.6.3 fixes the problem by truncating the password to 1024 
> chars when passed to the CRYPT validator.
>
> You should upgrade.
>
> Massimo
>

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