National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3435

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641335

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641335

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101025 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100928 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100921 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=commit;h=06f882f30092a39a1db867c9744b2ca8d60e4ad6

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=commit;h=06f882f30092a39a1db867c9744b2ca8d60e4ad6

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0606

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0606

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0004.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0004.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 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.

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/516909/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0891

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0891.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0819

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0819.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100924 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:220

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:220

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201206-31

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49711

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49711

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100927 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/8

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100928 Re: Minor security flaw with pam_xauth

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10

External Source: MLIST

Name: [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 rpm

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000126.html