CVE-2010-3430
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3430
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2010-3430.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2010-3430
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:10:26.820121Z
- Published
- 2011-01-24T18:00:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:10:26.820121Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The privilege-dropping implementation in the (1) pamenv and (2) pammail 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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/49711
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml
- 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/2010/09/27/4
- 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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641361
- http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=843807a3a90f52e7538be756616510730a24739a
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2