SECURITY: RHSA-1999:040 New PAM packages available

From: Cristian Gafton (gaftonat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 17:50:45 PDT

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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     --     gaftonat_private      --     Red Hat, Inc.
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      "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and
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