CVE-2010-3435

Published Jan 24, 2011

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.7
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

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