FSA/FC6/FEDORA-2007-546

[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6
- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-546 2007-06-11 -

Product    : Fedora Core 6 Name       : pam Version    : 0.99.6.2 Release    : 3.22.fc6 Summary    : A security tool 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:

This update contains many fixes required for MLS and also fix for low severity security issue with console ownership.

- - make unix_update helper executable only by root as it isn't useful for regular user anyway - pam_namespace: better document behavior on failure (#237249) - pam_unix: split out passwd change to a new helper binary (#236316) - pam_selinux: improve context change auditing (#234781) - pam_console: always decrement use count (#233581) - pam_namespace: fix parsing config file with unknown users (#234513) - pam_namespace: unmount poly dir for override users (#229689) - pam_namespace: use raw context for poly dir name (#227345) - pam_namespace: truncate long poly dir name (append hash) (#230120)
 * Thu Apr 26 2007 Tomas Mraz  0.99.6.2-3.22
 * Mon Apr 23 2007 Tomas Mraz  0.99.6.2-3.21
 * Tue Apr 3 2007 Tomas Mraz  0.99.6.2-3.19
 * Fri Mar 30 2007 Tomas Mraz  0.99.6.2-3.18
 * Mon Feb 26 2007 Tomas Mraz  0.99.6.2-3.17

- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

3211a0e1c55f6ce20e8c1cff277bbee009527697 SRPMS/pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.src.rpm 3211a0e1c55f6ce20e8c1cff277bbee009527697 noarch/pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.src.rpm 873b01bdc3788e002e829373756a8f4110c8316b ppc/pam-devel-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.ppc.rpm d9ab52bb0c3a11963c92c395f7c776a7da5a71cf ppc/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.ppc.rpm 09d38ba0e9a7ea9c46b3640bd7989091d6e1a560 ppc/pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.ppc.rpm f4e515041e8e13325ed4974d8132a384eba1876e x86_64/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.x86_64.rpm e9c45da6e689cb8f3676a5da6577279461d8cc71 x86_64/pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.x86_64.rpm 195ab2ecd72583873c100b7129708c895dee1c78 x86_64/pam-devel-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.x86_64.rpm 9b0b82300122e23e80593d64990a2e1325f20388 i386/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.i386.rpm 9c89fd3b52bb6b0c312bfdcccf18cb5c5067c8fd i386/pam-devel-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.i386.rpm fd61ee4978dda42c7bac51ef6cea1f7338ef425b i386/pam-0.99.6.2-3.22.fc6.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. -