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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-6359 (mod_auth_shadow)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-6359 2010-04-10 08:52:47 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : mod_auth_shadow Product : Fedora 12 Version : 2.2 Release : 8.fc12 URL : http://mod-auth-shadow.sourceforge.net Summary : An Apache module for authentication using /etc/shadow Description : When performing this task one encounters one fundamental difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be read/writeable only by root. However, the webserver is supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody". mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe to an suid root program, validate, which does the actual validation. When there is a failure, validate writes an error message to the system log, and waits three seconds before exiting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes CVE-2010-1151 mod_auth_shadow: bad wait(2) call causes randomized authorization behaviour (#578168). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Apr 9 2010 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> - 2.2-8 - CVE-2010-1151: bad wait(2) call causes randomized authorization (#578168) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #578168 - CVE-2010-1151 mod_auth_shadow: bad wait(2) call causes randomized authorization behaviour https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578168 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mod_auth_shadow' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-... (Log in to post comments)
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