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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-8036 (pam_ssh)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: pam_ssh-1.97-7.fc13
Date:  Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:23:47 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110621172347.73B48110971@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-8036 2011-06-08 23:33:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pam_ssh Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.97 Release : 7.fc13 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ssh/ Summary : PAM module for use with SSH keys and ssh-agent Description : This PAM module provides single sign-on behavior for UNIX using SSH keys. Users are authenticated by decrypting their SSH private keys with the password provided. In the first PAM login session phase, an ssh-agent process is started and keys are added. The same agent is used for the following PAM sessions. In any case the appropriate environment variables are set in the session phase. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Drop root group privileges before executing ssh-agent (#711170) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 7 2011 Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry@Butskoy.name> - 1.97-7 - Drop root group privileges properly before executing ssh-agent (#711170) * Tue Feb 8 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.97-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jan 5 2011 Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry@Butskoy.name> - 1.97-5 - export only pam_sm_* symbols from the module (else it could cause cross linking when used under sshd daemon) * Mon Dec 13 2010 Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry@Butskoy.name> - 1.97-4 - auto-create state dir under /var/run (#656657) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #711170 - pam_ssh: privileges not dropped properly before executing ssh-agent https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711170 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pam_ssh' 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-...


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