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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8605 (pam_krb5)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8605 2008-10-03 21:15:51 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pam_krb5 Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.2.18 Release : 2.fc8 URL : [] Summary : A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5. Description : This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket creation, and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets. The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update adds a backported fix for CVE-2008-3825, a credential cache permission bypass which becomes possible when the "existing_ticket" option is enabled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Oct 1 2008 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - 2.2.18-2 - fix ccache permissions bypass when the "existing_ticket" option is used (CVE-2008-3825) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #461960 - CVE-2008-3825 pam_krb5 existing_ticket permission flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461960 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pam_krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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