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. | ||||||||||
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