[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: pam-1.0.4-4.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3204
2009-04-02 16:28:52
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Name        : pam
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.0.4
Release     : 4.fc10
URL         : http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
Summary     : A security tool which provides authentication for applications
Description :
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policy without
having to recompile programs that handle authentication.

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Update Information:

 Update to new minor upstream release. Minor security issue fixes and bug fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 30 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.4-4
- replace libtool to drop unneeded /lib64 rpath
* Thu Mar 26 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.4-3
- replace all std descriptors when calling helpers (#491471)
* Tue Mar 17 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.4-2
- update to new upstream minor release (bugfixes and
  minor security fixes)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #489932 - CVE-2009-0887 pam: integer signedness error in _pam_StrTok()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489932
  [ 2 ] Bug #487216 - CVE-2009:0579 pam: MINDAYS not respected by pam for password changing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487216
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pam' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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