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Fedora 21 SSSD: Security Advisory for Memory Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent update for sssd in Fedora 21 resolves a memory management flaw that was impacting authentication processes.
Security fix for CVE-2015-5292

Summary

Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and

authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward

the system and a plug-gable back-end system to connect to multiple different

account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy

services for projects like FreeIPA.

The sssd sub-package is a meta-package that contains the daemon as well as all

the existing back ends.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-5292

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora memory leak authentication service SSSD

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1267580 - CVE-2015-5292 sssd: memory leak in the sssd_pac_plugin https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267580

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update sssd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: sssd
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.12.5
Release: 4.fc21
URL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement
Summary: System Security Services Daemon

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora memory leak authentication service SSSD

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