Fix detection of passwords hashed with MD5

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: af298f00a1e8d47f37e21567a00558defd492297
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2019-04-24T00:05:25Z
Releases: 9.6.13
Fix detection of passwords hashed with MD5

This commit fixes an issue related to the way password verifiers hashed
with MD5 are detected, leading to possibly detect that plain passwords
are legit MD5 hashes.  A MD5-hashed entry was checked based on if its
header uses "md5" and if the string length matches what is expected.
Unfortunately the code never checked if the hash only used hexadecimal
characters after the three-character prefix.

Fix 9.6 down to 9.4, where this code is present.  This area of the code
has changed in 10 and upwards with the introduction of SCRAM, which led
to a different fix committed as of ccae190.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/016deb6b-1f0a-8e9f-1833-a8675b170aa9@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4

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