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USN-959-2: PAM vulnerability

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USN-959-2: PAM vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/12/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 in PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and libpam-modules before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 in PAM on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .cache in a user's home directory, related to "user file stamps" and the motd.legal-notice file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpam-modules

References

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