Recommended update for PAM

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for PAM
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2012:1434-1
Rating: moderate
References: #774667
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

  • An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.

    Description:


    This patch contains a rewrite of the field parser in
    pam_group and pam_time to fix a segmentation fault on
    large /etc/security/group.conf.

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • pam-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • pam-devel-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64):
    • pam-32bit-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • pam-devel-32bit-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ia64):
    • pam-x86-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ppc):
    • pam-64bit-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • pam-devel-64bit-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):
    • pam-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • pam-devel-0.99.6.3-28.29.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64):
    • pam-32bit-0.99.6.3-28.29.1

    References:

    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/774667
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=82bc75676215ef5483a90aea8046fc55