-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10922 2009-11-04 10:54:39 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pam Product : Fedora 11 Version : 1.0.91 Release : 8.fc11 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes a memory corruption in the child process of pam_console before the execution of the console handler. Also fixes handling of the umask option of the pam_mkhomedir module. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Nov 2 2009 Tomas Mraz <tm...@redhat.com> 1.0.91-8 - pam_mkhomedir: fix umask parameter of the module (#499816) * Mon Nov 2 2009 Tomas Mraz <tm...@redhat.com> 1.0.91-7 - pam_console: fix memory corruption when executing handlers (patch by Stas Sergeev) and a few more fixes in the handler execution code (#532302) - pam_xauth: set the approprate context when creating .xauth files (#531530) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #532302 - pam_console memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532302 [ 2 ] Bug #499816 - bad handle umask in pam_mkhomedir https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499816 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/. 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-announce