Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-16390 (pam)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pam-1.1.5-1.fc16 
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Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:23:38 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16390
2011-11-25 01:32:49
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Name        : pam
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.1.5
Release     : 1.fc16
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:

Low impact security update from upstream. Only minor and safe changes.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 24 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.1.5-1
- upgrade to new upstream release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #748817 - CVE-2011-3149 pam (pam_env): Infinite loop by expanding certain arguments
[fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748817
  [ 2 ] Bug #742413 - Nonsense phrase in documentation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742413
  [ 3 ] Bug #712611 - 'crontab' loops on DNS if nscd not running
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712611
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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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