CVE-2010-3435
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 24, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 17, 2010
Description
The (1) pam_env and (2) pam_mail modules in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.2 use root privileges during read access to files and directories that belong to arbitrary user accounts, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging this filesystem activity, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the .pam_environment file in a user's home directory.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20100921 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- GLSA-201206-31vendor-advisory
- [security-announce] 20110307 VMSA-2011-0004 VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpmmailing-list
- ADV-2011-0606vdb-entry
- 20110308 VMSA-2011-0004 VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpm.mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20100924 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20100928 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- MDVSA-2010:220vendor-advisory
- 49711third-party-advisory
- http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06f882f30092a39a1db867c9744b2ca8d60e4ad6
- [oss-security] 20100928 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- RHSA-2010:0891vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641335
- [oss-security] 20101025 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
- RHSA-2010:0819vendor-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0004.html
- [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauthmailing-list
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