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Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04 LTS: 959-1 Moderate PAM Path Permissions Issue

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A security flaw in PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) allows local attackers to gain elevated privileges in Ubuntu due to poor directory permission management
Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu didnot correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps.A local attacker could exploit this to gain ro...

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security advisory moderate local attack root access ubuntu pam path permissions

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pam vulnerability

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security advisory moderate local attack root access ubuntu pam path permissions

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