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
References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announ… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0606 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516909/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/49711 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pa… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641335 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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