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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-10848
2015-06-27 09:58:16
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Name        : pam
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.1.8
Release     : 19.fc21
URL         : https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam
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:

Update fixing a minor security issue CVE-2015-3238.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 26 2015 Tomáš Mráz  1.1.8-19
- fix CVE-2015-3238 - minor security issue when handling long passwords
* Fri Oct 17 2014 Tomáš Mráz  1.1.8-18
- use USER_MGMT type for auditing in the pam_tally2 and faillock
  apps (#1151576)
* Thu Sep 11 2014 Tomáš Mráz  1.1.8-17
- update the audit-grantor patch with the upstream changes
- pam_userdb: correct the example in man page (#1078784)
- pam_limits: check whether the utmp login entry is valid (#1080023)
- pam_console_apply: do not print error if console.perms.d is empty
- pam_limits: nofile refers to open file descriptors (#1111220)
- apply PIE and full RELRO to all binaries built
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1228571 - CVE-2015-3238 pam: DoS/user enumeration due to blocking pipe in pam_unix module
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228571
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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 .

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