[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: cifs-utils-6.3-2.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-6068
2014-05-06 20:43:37
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Name        : cifs-utils
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 6.3
Release     : 2.fc20
URL         : http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
Summary     : Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
Description :
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed
on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting
shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package
work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a
SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard Linux
file system.

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Update Information:

Update to the latest available sources upstream. The included bug fixes fix a stack overflow issue in pam_cifscreds and also add better error handling to functions used by pam_cifscreds.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May  6 2014 Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu at redhat.com> 6.3-2
- autoconf: allow PAM security install directory to be configurable
- cifs: use krb5_kt_default() to determine default keytab location
- cifskey: better use snprintf()
- cifscreds: better error handling when key_search fails
- cifscreds: better error handling for key_add
* Thu Jan  9 2014 Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> 6.3-1
- update to 6.3 release
* Fri Dec 13 2013 Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> 6.2-5
- fix linking of wbclient
- add pam_cifscreds module and manpage
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1086226 - cifs-utils: stack-based buffer overflow flaw in pam_cifscreds [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086226
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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