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as far as I understand from the FAQ page, as long as connections to your PG database are blocked from external sources, you should be safe. Seems like a good idea to upgrade as soon as possible anyway though.

  > How can users protect themselves?
  > * Download the update release and update all of your servers as soon as possible.
  > * Ensure that PostgreSQL is not open to connections from untrusted networks.
  > * Audit your database users to be certain that all logins require proper credentials, and that the only logins which exist are legitimate and in current use.
EDIT: added a quote from the FAQ for clarity.

It doesn't specify whether pg_hba.conf is sufficient to protect against this, anybody have any word on that?

No, pg_hba.conf is not sufficient. I'll work on adding that to the FAQ.

I'm wondering this as well.

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