The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch (NSS) and the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.
Security Fix(es):
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
Performance impact with enumerate in SSSD > 2.7.3 [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-143416)
Poor performance of BE_REQ_INITGROUPS handling by 'sssd_be' (LDAP RFC2307, no nested groups) [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-150439)
[RFE] SSSD PAM: Support Microsoft AD PKINIT authentication indicator (ms-pkca) for pam_gssapi_indicators_map [rhel-9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-152067)
[Rocky Linux9.9] - GDM Support for IdM IdP feature and MFA [SSSD] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-156519)
SSSD Rebase for Rocky Linux 9.9 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173741)
[Rocky Linux9.9] Man page update: man sssd_krb5_localauth_plugin ? Missing disable = an2ln (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173742)
[Rocky Linux9.9] Concurrent child processes trigger unnecessarily backtrace (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173743)
[Rocky Linux9.9] Detect foreign security principals in AD group members and silently ignore them (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173744)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.
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