--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-015 2006-01-06 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : mod_auth_pgsql Version : 2.0.1 Release : 8.1 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> 2.0.1-8.1 - add security fix for CVE-2005-3656 - don't strip .so file so debuginfo works --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/ d92214578ca55f9fe41d1ae02bf6d43e SRPMS/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-8.1.src.rpm 747cb8b5486624f9df1057fca3ee7e86 ppc/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-8.1.ppc.rpm 7039f4f23f6a28fc27faa06ef83ea3a0 ppc/debug/mod_auth_pgsql-debuginfo-2.0.1-8.1.ppc.rpm d5815a490b1ec2c2f59f9715253d5665 x86_64/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-8.1.x86_64.rpm 4a1db6971295f3cc99b8641485577123 x86_64/debug/mod_auth_pgsql-debuginfo-2.0.1-8.1.x86_64.rpm 6ce00956921bda6ae3f5f6ed19bdde75 i386/mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.1-8.1.i386.rpm 4b265b8401bc3c5b56140b0bb65ce159 i386/debug/mod_auth_pgsql-debuginfo-2.0.1-8.1.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
