David B Harris discovered a problem with mod-auth-shadow, an Apache module which authenticates users against the system shadow password database, where the expiration status of the user's account and password were not enforced. This vulnerability would allow an otherwise authorized user to successfully authenticate, when the attempt should be rejected due to the expiration parameters.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-3.1woody.1
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-1.
We recommend that you update your mod-auth-shadow package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------
