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pam: local root privilege escalation

Package(s):pam CVE #(s):CVE-2010-0832
Created:July 8, 2010 Updated:October 26, 2010
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu did not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privilieges.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-959-2 2010-10-25
Ubuntu USN-959-1 2010-07-07

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