-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8605 2008-10-03 21:15:51 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pam_krb5 Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.2.18 Release : 2.fc8 URL : [] Summary : A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5. Description : This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket creation, and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets. The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update adds a backported fix for CVE-2008-3825, a credential cache permission bypass which becomes possible when the "existing_ticket" option is enabled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Oct 1 2008 Nalin Dahyabhai nalin@redhat.com - 2.2.18-2 - fix ccache permissions bypass when the "existing_ticket" option is used (CVE-2008-3825) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #461960 - CVE-2008-3825 pam_krb5 existing_ticket permission flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461960 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pam_krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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