RHSA-2010:0819Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

Published
November 1, 2010
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2010-3316 →CVE-2010-3435 →CVE-2010-3853 →CVE-2010-4707 →

📋 Description

CVE-2010-3316 — pam: pam_xauth missing return value checks from setuid() and similar calls CVE-2010-3435 — pam: pam_env and pam_mail accessing users' file with root privileges CVE-2010-3853 — pam: pam_namespace executes namespace.init with service's environment CVE-2010-4707 — pam: pam_xauth: Does not check if certain ACL file is a regular file

🎯 Affected products35

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • pam-devel-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-devel-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • pam-devel-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • pam-devel-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

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