[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: sssd-1.2.1-27.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2010-3273
2010-08-24 22:29:35
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Name        : sssd
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.2.1
Release     : 27.el5
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
Summary     : System Security Services Daemon
Description :
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 pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different
account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy
services for projects like FreeIPA.

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Update Information:

 * CVE-2010-2940 SSSD allows null password entry to authenticate against LDAP
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #625189 - CVE-2010-2940 sssd: allows null password entry to authenticate against LDAP
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625189
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update sssd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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