The System Security Services Daemon service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch and the Pluggable Authentication Modules interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: sssd . Security Fix: * sssd: fallback_homedir returns "/" for empty home directories in passwd file * sssd: improper implementation of GPOs due to too restrictive permissions For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.