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CVE-2010-3430 Details

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 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=843807a3a90f52e7538be756616510730a24739a	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/10	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/8	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/9	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10	CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/03/1	CVE	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2	CVE	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641361	CVE	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/49711	CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml	CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/11	CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2	CVE
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=843807a3a90f52e7538be756616510730a24739a	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/10	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/8	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/9	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10	[email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/03/1	[email protected]	Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2	[email protected]	Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641361	[email protected]	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/49711	[email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml	[email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/11	[email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2	[email protected]

see all 32 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
linux-pam linux-pam	1.1.2
CPE cpe:2.3:a:linux-pam:linux-pam:1.1.2:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 3, 2019	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Jan 24, 2011	Initial Analysis	[email protected]