Arthur de Jong

Open Source / Free Software developer

Release 0.7.17 of nss-pam-ldapd

2012-09-08

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

A summary of the changes since 0.7.16:
  • a few small compatibility improvements from the 0.8 branch
  • fix two possible NULL pointer dereferences and a possible memory leak (thanks Jakub Hrozek)
  • install default configuration file with reduced permissions (further protection for CVE-2009-1073)
  • support larger gecos values

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