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TITLE:
jBCrypt Character Encoding Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38432

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38432/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in jBCrypt, which can potentially
be exploited by malicious people to conduct brute-force attacks.

The security issue is caused due to the application replacing
non-US-ASCII characters in passwords with a "?" character before
building the hash, which results in reduced entropy of hashed
passwords.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 0.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.3 and generate hashes with new passwords.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Aliaksandr Radzivanovich.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mindrot.org/files/jBCrypt/internat.adv

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