CVE-2010-3430

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
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Published
2011-01-24T18:00:01Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

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Affected packages