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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2173-1 pam-pgsql -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

26 Feb 2011

Affected Packages:

pam-pgsql

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 603436.

More information:

It was discovered that pam-pgsql, a PAM module to authenticate using a PostgreSQL database, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow in supplied IP-addresses.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.3-2+lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1-4+squeeze1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your pam-pgsql packages.