Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-5983 (pam_krb5)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc11 | |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:49:02 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20090627024902.5AD5010F8A2@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com> | |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5983 2009-06-15 21:58:09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : pam_krb5 Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.3.5 Release : 1.fc11 URL : https://fedorahosted.org/pam_krb5/ 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 updates the pam_krb5 package from version 2.3.4 to 2.3.5, fixing CVE-2009-1384: in certain configurations, the password prompt could vary depending on whether or not the user account was known to the system or the KDC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue May 26 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - 2.3.5-1 - catch the case where we pass a NULL initial password into libkrb5 and it uses our callback to ask us for the password for the user using a principal name, and reject that (#502602) - always prompt for a password unless we were told not to (#502602, CVE-2009-1384) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #502602 - CVE-2009-1384 pam_krb5: Password prompt varies for existent and non-existent users https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502602 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...