CVE-2010-3431 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=commit;h=843807a3a90f52e7538be756616510730a24739a http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/9 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/03/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2 http://secunia.com/advisories/49711 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641361