Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-22532a1a81 Moderate: PAM Authentication Bypass

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.

fix CVE-2020-27780: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist

* Tue Nov 24 2020 Iker Pedrosa - 1.4.0-9

- fix CVE-2020-27780: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist

and root password is blank (#1901173)

[ 1 ] Bug #1901094 - CVE-2020-27780 pam: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist and root password is blank

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-22532a1a81' 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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