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Fedora Core 4: 2005-07-13 Moderate: PAM XAUTHORITY Handling Fix

This update fixes a regression in XAUTHORITY handling and updates auditing support. It requires audit-libs update due to changes in its API.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-508 2005-07-13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : pam Version : 0.79 Release : 9.1 Summary : A security tool 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: This update fixes a regression in XAUTHORITY handling and updates auditing support. It requires audit-libs update due to changes in its API. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Fri Jun 17 2005 Tomas Mraz 0.79-9.1 - pam_loginuid shouldn't report error when /proc/self/loginuid is missing (#159974) * Thu Jun 9 2005 Tomas Mraz - add the Requires dependency on audit-libs (#159885) * Fri May 20 2005 Tomas Mraz 0.79-9 - update the pam audit patch to support newest audit library, audit also pam_setcred calls (Steve Grubb) - don't use the audit_fd as global static variable - don't unset the XAUTHORITY when target user is root * Fri May 20 2005 Tomas Mraz 0.79-9 - update the pam audit patch to support newest audit library, audit also pam_setcred calls (Steve Grubb) - don't use the audit_fd as global static variable - don't unset the XAUTHORITY when target user is root ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: b034d0f3ade931ebe451d7cefc3dbec3 SRPMS/pam-0.79-9.1.src.rpm e58b391c5500518488908828dc701e24 ppc/pam-0.79-9.1.ppc.rpm ac4299e9753d9c93eecb4d5eadc6d38f ppc/pam-devel-0.79-9.1.ppc.rpm cf59861d2c8e96f449770bbf749b70ba ppc/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.79-9.1.ppc.rpm d2738ba336413c7e4d75373d646bff89 ppc/pam-0.79-9.1.ppc64.rpm abacf098485cb7abaf68e03e3bf94d68 ppc/pam-devel-0.79-9.1.ppc64.rpm 5e4a64e5a8aef383b44ce97c9d3221c5 x86_64/pam-0.79-9.1.x86_64.rpm 19604a6e9952aa81d2412688a40e37be x86_64/pam-devel-0.79-9.1.x86_64.rpm 9a5851ff3b8d5cd6ca54790747874d40 x86_64/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.79-9.1.x86_64.rpm c114669f9371d2dab1246798f19d783d x86_64/pam-0.79-9.1.i386.rpm 6b02245142fa60d55b35359ea23da47f x86_64/pam-devel-0.79-9.1.i386.rpm c114669f9371d2dab1246798f19d783d i386/pam-0.79-9.1.i386.rpm 6b02245142fa60d55b35359ea23da47f i386/pam-devel-0.79-9.1.i386.rpm d04144a7cb1c31c6fa33290105174371 i386/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.79-9.1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDO. update, fixes, regression, xauthority, handling, updates, auditing, support, requires. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jul 13, 2005 •Important Fedora