[LI] SECURITY: RHSA-1999:040 New PAM packages available

[Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: Read if you're using or planning to use PAM and NIS in RH 6.1 -- Raju

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:         New PAM packages available
Advisory ID:      RHSA-1999:040
Issue date:       10/13/1999
Updated on:       10/13/1999
Keywords:         pam security login NIS server
Cross references: N/A
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1. Topic:

Under some network configurations PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
will fail to lock access to disabled NIS accounts.

2. Problem description:

The PAM packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1/Intel may allow access to
locked NIS accounts on certain network configurations. If you have a Red Hat
Linux 6.1 workstation performing authentication against a NIS server then
you are at risk. Red Hat recommends that you upgrade the PAM packages on
all Red Hat Linux 6.1 workstations to the versions announced in this
advisory.

Previous versions of Red Hat Linux are not affected by this problem.

3. Bug IDs fixed  (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):


4. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.1 for i386


5. Obsoleted by:
N/A

6. Conflicts with:
N/A

7. RPMs required:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm


8. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
    rpm -Uvh <filename>
where filename is the name of the RPM.


9. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name
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9fd42c57d02ac039093b6f94132eee0e  SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm
e8d5b9edf5dc9998ee19d91b7620f2ad  i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat Inc. for security.  Our key
is available at:
         http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
    rpm --checksig  <filename>
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
    rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename>

10. References:

Cristian
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Cristian Gafton     --     gafton@xxxxxxxxxx      --     Red Hat, Inc.
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  "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and
   Microsoft?"  --Al Gore on Y2K

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