CVE-2010-3435 (GCVE-0-2010-3435)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-24 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:11
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1111 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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Date Public
2010-09-21 00:00
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}



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