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pam: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):pam CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3430 CVE-2010-3431 CVE-2010-4706
Created:February 14, 2011 Updated:May 31, 2011
Description: From the Pardus advisory:

The privilege-dropping implementation in the (1) pam_env and (2) pam_mail modules in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 does not perform the required setfsgid and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging unintended group permissions, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the .pam_environment file in a user's home directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-3435. (CVE-2010-3430)

The privilege-dropping implementation in the (1) pam_env and (2) pam_mail modules in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on the .pam_environment file in a user's home directory. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-3435. (CVE-2010-3431)

The pam_sm_close_session function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier does not properly handle a failure to determine a certain target uid, which might allow local users to delete unintended files by executing a program that relies on the pam_xauth PAM check. (CVE-2010-4706)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1140-2 2011-05-31
Ubuntu USN-1140-1 2011-05-30
Pardus 2011-41 2011-02-14
Gentoo 201206-31 2012-06-25

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