PAM Unix_Chkpwd Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Solution:
RedHat Fedora has released security advisory FEDORA-2005-1030 addressing this issue for Fedora Core 3. Users are advised to see the referenced advisory for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.

RedHat has released security advisory RHSA-2005:805-6 addressing this issue for their Desktop and Enterprise 4 platforms. Please see the referenced Web advisory for further information.

RedHat Fedora has released security advisory FEDORA-2005-1031 addressing this issue for Fedora Core 4. Users are advised to see the referenced advisory for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.

Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200510-22 and fixes to address this issue. To obtain fixes, users should execute the following:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3"

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Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: vuldb@securityfocus.com <mailto:vuldb@securityfocus.com>.



 

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