CVE-2010-3316

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The run_coprocess function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.2 does not check the return values of the setuid, setgid, and setgroups system calls, which might allow local users to read arbitrary files by executing a program that relies on the pam_xauth PAM check.

Affected products

Linux-PAM: through 1.1.1; 0.99.1.0, 0.99.2.0, 0.99.2.1, 0.99.3.0, 0.99.4.0, 0.99.5.0 (+16)

References

http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06f882f30092a39a1db867c9744b2ca8d60e4ad6
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000126.html
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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/27/10
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/2010/09/27/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/2
http://secunia.com/advisories/49711
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-31.xml

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