Fedora Directory Server 1.0.2 is released! This release contains new
features, new platform support, and many bug fixes.
* Extended Password Syntax checking - passwords can be checked to see if
they conform to the following:
** minimum password character length (old feature, but now the default
is 8 characters)
** minimum number of digit characters (0-9)
** minimum number of ASCII alpha characters (a-z, A-Z)
** minimum number of uppercase ASCII alpha characters (A-Z)
** minimum number of lowercase ASCII alpha characters (a-z)
** minimum number of special ASCII characters (!@#$, etc.)
** minimum number of 8-bit characters
** maximum number of times the same char can be immediately repeated
(aaabbb)
** minimum number of character categories that are represented
(categories are lower, upper, digit, special, and 8-bit)
** Screenshot - http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Image:Pwdsyntax.png
* Support for Linux x86_64 - RPMs for Fedora Core 4 and Fedora
Core3/RHEL4 x86_64 are
on the Download page.
* Preliminary support for Fedora Core 5 - including support for Apache
2.2 and native java
* Bug fixes - follow this link
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183369) to see the
bugzilla report
Release Notes: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Release_Notes
Download: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download
Home Page: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page
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Fedora Directory Server Update Notification
2006-03-01
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Product : Fedora Directory Server
Name : Directory Server
Version : 1.0.1
Release : 1
Summary : The core LDAP server engine
Description :
The core directory server component of Fedora Directory Server is the
LDAP server engine/daemon.
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Update Information:
Evgeny Legerov of GLEG, Ltd. (http://www.gleg.net/) discovered several
flaws affecting Fedora Directory Server using the GLEG ProtoVer LDAP
test suite. A remote attacker who is able to connect to the directory
server could send malicious requests which would cause the server to
crash leading to a denial of service.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the names
CVE-2006-0451, CVE-2006-0452, and CVE-2006-0453 to these issues.
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This update is available by upgrading to Fedora Directory Server 1.0.2
available here:
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download
The above link has instructions for downloading the new version and
upgrading older versions.