Fedora 11 Update: pam-1.0.91-8.fc11
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Wed Nov 11 15:04:58 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-10922
2009-11-04 10:54:39
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Name : pam
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.0.91
Release : 8.fc11
URL : http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
Summary : An extensible library which provides authentication for applications
Description :
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policy without
having to recompile programs that handle authentication.
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Update Information:
Fixes a memory corruption in the child process of pam_console before the
execution of the console handler. Also fixes handling of the umask option of the
pam_mkhomedir module.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Nov 2 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.91-8
- pam_mkhomedir: fix umask parameter of the module (#499816)
* Mon Nov 2 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.91-7
- pam_console: fix memory corruption when executing handlers (patch by
Stas Sergeev) and a few more fixes in the handler execution code (#532302)
- pam_xauth: set the approprate context when creating .xauth files (#531530)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #532302 - pam_console memory corruption
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532302
[ 2 ] Bug #499816 - bad handle umask in pam_mkhomedir
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499816
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update pam' at the command line.
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