[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc12
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Thu May 13 19:28:11 UTC 2010
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6359
2010-04-10 08:52:47
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Name : mod_auth_shadow
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 2.2
Release : 8.fc12
URL : http://mod-auth-shadow.sourceforge.net
Summary : An Apache module for authentication using /etc/shadow
Description :
When performing this task one encounters one fundamental
difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be
read/writeable only by root. However, the webserver is
supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody".
mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe
to an suid root program, validate, which does the actual
validation. When there is a failure, validate writes an
error message to the system log, and waits three seconds
before exiting.
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Update Information:
Fixes CVE-2010-1151 mod_auth_shadow: bad wait(2) call causes randomized
authorization behaviour (#578168).
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Apr 9 2010 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> - 2.2-8
- CVE-2010-1151: bad wait(2) call causes randomized authorization (#578168)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #578168 - CVE-2010-1151 mod_auth_shadow: bad wait(2) call causes randomized authorization behaviour
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578168
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mod_auth_shadow' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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