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Re: pam question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wichert Akkerman)
Thu Aug 3 15:05:32 2000

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Previously Vincent Danen wrote:
> Hi there.  I have a question about the security explots in pam that
> Connectiva and RedHat announced.  Does anyone know what version the
> exploit first appeared in?  Specifically, I'm wondering if versions
> 0.66 and 0.68 are afflicted with this exploit.

They are and they are not: pam_console is a redhat addition to the
PAM sourcecode. So the official PAM release are not affected at all,
but the redhat packaged version of PAM with the pam_console addition
is.

Wichert.

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