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71. By Marc Deslauriers

* SECURITY UPDATE: possible code execution via incorrect environment file
  parsing (LP: #874469)
  - debian/patches-applied/CVE-2011-3148.patch: correctly count leading
    whitespace when parsing environment file in modules/pam_env/pam_env.c.
  - CVE-2011-3148
* SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via overflowed environment variable
  expansion (LP: #874565)
  - debian/patches-applied/CVE-2011-3149.patch: when overflowing, exit
    with PAM_BUF_ERR in modules/pam_env/pam_env.c.
  - CVE-2011-3149
* SECURITY UPDATE: code execution via incorrect environment cleaning
  - debian/patches-applied/update-motd: updated to use clean environment
    and absolute paths in modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.c.
  - CVE-2011-XXXX

70. By Marc Deslauriers

* SECURITY REGRESSION:
  - debian/patches/security-dropprivs.patch: updated patch to preserve
    ABI and prevent daemons from needing to be restarted. (LP: #790538)
  - debian/patches/autoconf.patch: refreshed

69. By Marc Deslauriers

* SECURITY UPDATE: multiple issues with lack of adequate privilege
  dropping
  - debian/patches/security-dropprivs.patch: introduce new privilege
    dropping code in libpam/pam_modutil_priv.c, libpam/Makefile.*,
    libpam/include/security/pam_modutil.h, libpam/libpam.map,
    modules/pam_env/pam_env.c, modules/pam_mail/pam_mail.c,
    modules/pam_xauth/pam_xauth.c.
  - CVE-2010-3316
  - CVE-2010-3430
  - CVE-2010-3431
  - CVE-2010-3435
  - CVE-2010-4706
  - CVE-2010-4707
* SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation via incorrect environment
  - debian/patches/CVE-2010-3853.patch: use clean environment in
    modules/pam_namespace/pam_namespace.c.
  - CVE-2010-3853
* debian/patches-applied/series: disable hurd_no_setfsuid patch, as it
  isn't needed for Ubuntu, and it needs to be rewritten to work with the
  massive privilege refactoring in the security patches.

68. By Kees Cook

* SECURITY UPDATE: root privilege escalation via symlink following.
  - debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice: drop privs for work.
  - CVE-2010-0832

67. By Steve Langasek

* Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
  - debian/libpam-modules.postinst: Add PATH to /etc/environment if it's
    not present there or in /etc/security/pam_env.conf. (should send to
    Debian).
  - debian/libpam0g.postinst: only ask questions during update-manager when
    there are non-default services running.
  - debian/patches-applied/series: Ubuntu patches are as below ...
  - debian/patches-applied/ubuntu-rlimit_nice_correction: Explicitly
    initialise RLIMIT_NICE rather than relying on the kernel limits.
  - Change Vcs-Bzr to point at the Ubuntu branch.
  - Make libpam-modules depend on base-files (>= 5.0.0ubuntu6), to ensure
    run-parts does the right thing in /etc/update-motd.d.
  - debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice: display the contents of
    /etc/legal once, then set a flag in the user's homedir to prevent
    showing it again.
  - debian/update-motd.5, debian/libpam-modules.manpages: add a manpage
    for update-motd, with some best practices and notes of explanation.
  - debian/patches/update-motd-manpage-ref: add a reference in pam_motd(8)
    to update-motd(5)

66. By Kees Cook

* SECURITY UPDATE: root privilege escalation via symlink following.
  - debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice: drop privs for work.
  - CVE-2010-0832

65. By Dustin Kirkland 

Trigger a rebuild, applying changes from 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 which
were previously not committed to bzr

64. By Steve Langasek

* Merge from Debian, remaining changes:
  - debian/libpam-modules.postinst: Add PATH to /etc/environment if it's not
    present there or in /etc/security/pam_env.conf. (should send to Debian).
  - debian/libpam0g.postinst: only ask questions during update-manager when
    there are non-default services running.
  - debian/patches-applied/series: Ubuntu patches are as below ...
  - debian/patches-applied/ubuntu-rlimit_nice_correction: Explicitly
    initialise RLIMIT_NICE rather than relying on the kernel limits.
  - Change Vcs-Bzr to point at the Ubuntu branch.
  - Make libpam-modules depend on base-files (>= 5.0.0ubuntu6), to ensure
    run-parts does the right thing in /etc/update-motd.d.
  - debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice: display the contents of
    /etc/legal once, then set a flag in the user's homedir to prevent showing
    it again.
* Dropped changes:
  - debian/local/common-{auth,account,password}.md5sums: include the
    Ubuntu-specific intrepid,jaunty md5sums for use during the
    common-session-noninteractive upgrade - upgrades to maverick are
    only supported from lucid, so this delta can be dropped.
  - debian/patches-applied/ubuntu-no-error-if-missingok: 'missingok' option
    is obsoleted by 10.04 LTS and no longer needs to be supported for
    upgrades.

63. By Dustin Kirkland 

* debian/update-motd.5, debian/libpam-modules.manpages: add a manpage
  for update-motd, with some best practices and notes of explanation,
  LP: #562566
* debian/patches/update-motd-manpage-ref: add a reference in pam_mod(8)
  to update-motd(5), LP: #552175

62. By Steve Langasek

* Merge from Debian, remaining changes:
  - debian/libpam-modules.postinst: Add PATH to /etc/environment if it's not
    present there or in /etc/security/pam_env.conf. (should send to Debian).
  - debian/libpam0g.postinst: only ask questions during update-manager when
    there are non-default services running.
  - debian/patches-applied/series: Ubuntu patches are as below ...
  - debian/patches-applied/ubuntu-no-error-if-missingok: add a new, magic
    module option 'missingok' which will suppress logging of errors by
    libpam if the module is not found.
  - debian/patches-applied/ubuntu-rlimit_nice_correction: Explicitly
    initialise RLIMIT_NICE rather than relying on the kernel limits.
  - Change Vcs-Bzr to point at the Ubuntu branch.
  - Make libpam-modules depend on base-files (>= 5.0.0ubuntu6), to ensure
    run-parts does the right thing in /etc/update-motd.d.
  - debian/patches-applied/pam_motd-legal-notice: display the contents of
    /etc/legal once, then set a flag in the user's homedir to prevent showing
    it again.
  - debian/local/common-{auth,account,password}.md5sums: include the
    Ubuntu-specific intrepid,jaunty md5sums for use during the
    common-session-noninteractive upgrade.

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