--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-014 2006-01-06 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : mod_auth_pgsql Version : 2.0.1 Release : 6.2 Summary : Basic authentication for the Apache web server using a PostgreSQL database. Description : mod_auth_pgsql can be used to limit access to documents served by a web server by checking fields in a table in a PostgresQL database. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Several format string flaws were found in the way mod_auth_pgsql logs information. It may be possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user if mod_auth_pgsql is used for user authentication. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3656 to this issue. Please note that this issue only affects servers which have mod_auth_pgsql installed and configured to perform user authentication against a PostgreSQL database. Red Hat would like to thank iDefense for reporting this issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Jan 6 2006 Joe Orton <jorton@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.0.1-6.2 - add security fix for CVE-2005-3656 - don't strip .so file so debuginfo works - fix r->user handling (Mirko Streckenbach, #150087) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ f4de3874523d13558b62a7b616a9924b SRPMS/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-6.2.src.rpm 710fe9e31a155fca650aa2e948caf3e0 x86_64/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-6.2.x86_64.rpm a98acc532d16f6824643f84681a925ba x86_64/debug/mod_auth_pgsql-debuginfo-2.0.1-6.2.x86_64.rpm 2b1130b5b5be47de09f927b2dd87bd94 i386/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-6.2.i386.rpm 2d348cb3ca7f7525dce925a20fed88da i386/debug/mod_auth_pgsql-debuginfo-2.0.1-6.2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
