Letter P

pam - A security tool which provides authentication for applications

Website: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
License: GPL or BSD
Vendor: CentOS
Description:
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policy without
having to recompile programs that handle authentication.

Packages

pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 [979 KiB] Changelog by Tomas Mraz (2010-10-21):
- fix insecure dropping of priviledges in pam_xauth
  and pam_mail - CVE-2010-3316 (#637898), CVE-2010-3435 (#641335)
- fix insecure executing of scripts with user supplied environment
  variables in pam_namespace - CVE-2010-3853 (#643043)

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