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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16350
2014-12-06 01:54:07
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Name : pam
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 1.1.8
Release : 2.fc20
URL : http://www.linux-pam.org/
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:

Update fixing minor security issues and bugs.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 4 2014 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.1.8-2
– fix CVE-2014-2583: potential path traversal issue in pam_timestamp
– fix CVE-2013-7041: use case sensitive comparison in pam_userdb
– be tolerant to corrupted opasswd file
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1080243 – CVE-2014-2583 pam: path traversal issue in pam_timestamp’s format_timestamp_name()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1080243
[ 2 ] Bug #1038555 – CVE-2013-7041 pam: pam_userdb case insensitive password hash comparison
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038555
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This update can be installed with the “yum” update program. Use
su -c ‘yum update pam’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to “Managing Software with yum”,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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