[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pam-1.1.8-19.fc22
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-10830
2015-06-27 09:57:38
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Name : pam
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 1.1.8
Release : 19.fc22
URL : http://www.linux-pam.org/
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 <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.8-19
- fix CVE-2015-3238 - minor security issue when handling long passwords
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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.
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