RHSA-2010:0891Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

Published
November 16, 2010
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2010-3316 →CVE-2010-3435 →CVE-2010-3853 →CVE-2010-4707 →CVE-2010-4708 →

📋 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 CVE-2010-4708 — pam: pam_env: reading ~/.pam_environment is security risk

🎯 Affected products52

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
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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

🔗 References (6)