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Fedora 11 pam_krb5 Security Advisory: CVE-2009-1384 Medium Threat

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Arch Linux patch for libcrypto addresses unsynchronized certificate verifications associated with CVE-2020-1234.
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...

Summary

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix medium password prompt authentication module CVE-2009-1384

Change Log

* Tue May 26 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai - 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

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: pam_krb5
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.3.5
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement
Summary: A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5.

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security advisory Fedora security fix medium password prompt authentication module CVE-2009-1384

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