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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68398
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 14 FEDORA-2010-17155 (pam)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to pam
announced via advisory FEDORA-2010-17155.

Update Information:

This update fixes moderate vulnerabilities in pam_env, pam_namespace, pam_mail, and pam_xauth modules. Default configurations (or configurations generated by authconfig) are not affected by the pam_mail and pam_namespace vulnerabilities.

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #637898 - CVE-2010-3316 pam: pam_xauth missing return value checks from setuid() and similar calls
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637898
[ 2 ] Bug #641335 - CVE-2010-3435 pam: pam_env and pam_mail accessing users' file with root privileges
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641335
[ 3 ] Bug #643043 - CVE-2010-3853 pam: pam_namespace executes namespace.init with service's environment
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643043

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update pam' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2010-17155

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.9

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3316
Bugtraq: 20110308 VMSA-2011-0004 VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpm. (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516909/100/0/threaded
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:220
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3028213&group_id=6663&atid=106663
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/16/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/24/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000126.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0819.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0891.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49711
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0606
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3435
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/8
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3853
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