[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: pam-1.1.5-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16365
2011-11-25 01:31:43
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Name        : pam
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.1.5
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
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:

Low impact security update from upstream. Only minor and safe changes.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 24 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.5-1
- upgrade to new upstream release
* Thu Aug 25 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.4-4
- fix dereference in pam_env
- fix wrong parse of user at host pattern in pam_access (#732081)
* Sat Jul 23 2011 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 1.1.4-3
- Rebuild to fix trailing slashes in provided dirs added by rpm 4.9.1.
* Fri Jul 15 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.4-2
- clear supplementary groups in pam_console handler execution
* Mon Jun 27 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.4-1
- upgrade to new upstream release
* Tue Jun  7 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.3-10
- detect the shared / and make the polydir mounts private based on that
- fix memory leak and other small errors in pam_namespace
* Thu Jun  2 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.3-9
- add support for explicit marking of the polydir mount private (#623522)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #748817 - CVE-2011-3149 pam (pam_env): Infinite loop by expanding certain arguments [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748817
  [ 2 ] Bug #742413 - Nonsense phrase in documentation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742413
  [ 3 ] Bug #712611 - 'crontab' loops on DNS if nscd not running
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712611
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pam' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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