Fedora 25 sssd Important Input Handling Flaw Fix CVE-2017-12173

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.

Security fix for [CVE-2017-12173]

[ 1 ] Bug #1498173 - CVE-2017-12173 sssd: unsanitized input when searching in local cache database

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498173

su -c 'dnf upgrade sssd' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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