[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pam-1.1.8-2.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16350
2014-12-06 01:54:07
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Name        : pam
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.1.8
Release     : 2.fc20
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 minor security issues and bugs.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec  4 2014 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.8-2
- fix CVE-2014-2583: potential path traversal issue in pam_timestamp
- fix CVE-2013-7041: use case sensitive comparison in pam_userdb
- be tolerant to corrupted opasswd file
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1080243 - CVE-2014-2583 pam: path traversal issue in pam_timestamp's format_timestamp_name()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1080243
  [ 2 ] Bug #1038555 - CVE-2013-7041 pam: pam_userdb case insensitive password hash comparison
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038555
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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