-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-22532a1a81 2020-11-28 02:02:44.955114 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pam Product : Fedora 33 Version : 1.4.0 Release : 9.fc33 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
fix CVE-2020-27780: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue Nov 24 2020 Iker Pedrosa ipedrosa@redhat.com - 1.4.0-9 - fix CVE-2020-27780: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist and root password is blank (#1901173) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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