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SECURITY: RHSA-1999:040 New PAM packages available
From: gafton () REDHAT COM (Cristian Gafton)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:50:45 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: New PAM packages available Advisory ID: RHSA-1999:040 Issue date: 10/13/1999 Updated on: 10/13/1999 Keywords: pam security login NIS server Cross references: N/A - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: Under some network configurations PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) will fail to lock access to disabled NIS accounts. 2. Problem description: The PAM packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1/Intel may allow access to locked NIS accounts on certain network configurations. If you have a Red Hat Linux 6.1 workstation performing authentication against a NIS server then you are at risk. Red Hat recommends that you upgrade the PAM packages on all Red Hat Linux 6.1 workstations to the versions announced in this advisory. Previous versions of Red Hat Linux are not affected by this problem. 3. Bug IDs fixed (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.1 for i386 5. Obsoleted by: N/A 6. Conflicts with: N/A 7. RPMs required: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm 8. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Uvh <filename> where filename is the name of the RPM. 9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9fd42c57d02ac039093b6f94132eee0e SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm e8d5b9edf5dc9998ee19d91b7620f2ad i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig <filename> If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename> 10. References: Cristian - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton () redhat com -- Red Hat, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" --Al Gore on Y2K -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBOAPXb/GvxKXU9NkBAQGv+QP+KUMru9D+9dS8wNNGG2wvShnO8aYOD31y dgZtf7qANqP69KNARrhu2hhKZJVPXYv9bVJzfHzOz/dRGJNI1Atvz1yPdcPEVKWS ppb/+nx4IJYS0QadT3TdmpBwyKxnlrXMAaxXOf9CtC4H796GJuZNT/K74bJPhmz2 iDvlAltD2BE= =L+g2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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