Issued:

2015-03-10

Updated:

2016-05-09

RHBA-2015:0663 - fprintd bug fix update

Synopsis

fprintd bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated fprintd packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The fprintd packages contain a D-Bus service to access fingerprint readers.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Due to a bug in the fprintd daemon code, long-running Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) clients were experiencing file descriptor leaks for each iteration of authentication. With this update, the file descriptor closes after completing its job, and therefore the file descriptor leaks no longer occur. (BZ#1024825)

Users of fprintd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• fprintd-pam-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.x86_64.rpm
• fprintd-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.x86_64.rpm
• fprintd-pam-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.ppc.rpm
• fprintd-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.ppc64.rpm
• fprintd-debuginfo-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.ppc64.rpm
• fprintd-pam-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.i686.rpm
• fprintd-debuginfo-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.x86_64.rpm
• fprintd-pam-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.ppc64.rpm
• fprintd-debuginfo-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.ppc.rpm
• fprintd-debuginfo-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.i686.rpm
• fprintd-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.src.rpm
• fprintd-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.i686.rpm
• fprintd-devel-0.1-22.git04fd09cfa.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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