Arthur de Jong

Open Source / Free Software developer

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News in 2013

  • 2013-12-08: Release 0.7.19 of nss-pam-ldapd

    This is an update for the 0.7 series that includes fixes for a few issues. The changes should be minimal and have mostly been available in the 0.8 branch for some time.

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  • 2013-10-30: Release 0.9.2 of nss-pam-ldapd

    This is an update for the 0.9 development branch of nss-pam-ldapd that includes a number of improvements. This release includes a number of improvements to the tests and to portability. This branch will see more development and features added.

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  • 2013-08-25: Release 0.9.1 of nss-pam-ldapd

    This is an update for the 0.9 development branch of nss-pam-ldapd that includes a number of new features. This branch will see more development and features added.

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  • 2013-05-05: Release 0.8.13 of nss-pam-ldapd

    This is a maintenance update that fixes a number of minor issues most of which were backported from the 0.9.0 release. Only a few minor new features were added. This should be a reasonably stable and well tested release.

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  • 2013-04-05: Release 0.9.0 of nss-pam-ldapd

    This is the first release of the new 0.9 development branch of nss-pam-ldapd. This includes a number of new features and will see some more development.

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  • 2013-02-18 security advisory: CVE-2013-0288: file descriptor buffer overflow

    Garth Mollett discovered that a file descriptor overflow issue in the use of FD_SET() in nss-pam-ldapd can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could, under some circumstances, use this flaw to cause a process that has the NSS or PAM module loaded to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

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  • 2013-01-06: nss-pam-ldapd moving from Subversion to Git

    In order to use some of the advantages of a distributed VCS, the nss-pam-ldapd project is currently moving the development from Subversion to Git. The Git repository can be cloned with:

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