Red Hat has released a pam security update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5



[RHSA-2010:0819-01] Moderate: pam security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: pam security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0819-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0819.html
Issue date: 2010-11-01
CVE Names: CVE-2010-3316 CVE-2010-3435 CVE-2010-3853
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1. Summary:

Updated pam packages that fix three security issues are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system whereby
administrators can set up authentication policies without having to
recompile programs that handle authentication.

It was discovered that the pam_namespace module executed the external
script namespace.init with an unchanged environment inherited from an
application calling PAM. In cases where such an environment was untrusted
(for example, when pam_namespace was configured for setuid applications
such as su or sudo), a local, unprivileged user could possibly use this
flaw to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2010-3853)

It was discovered that the pam_mail module used root privileges while
accessing users' files. In certain configurations, a local, unprivileged
user could use this flaw to obtain limited information about files or
directories that they do not have access to. (CVE-2010-3435)

It was discovered that the pam_xauth module did not verify the return
values of the setuid() and setgid() system calls. A local, unprivileged
user could use this flaw to execute the xauth command with root privileges
and make it read an arbitrary input file. (CVE-2010-3316)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team for
reporting the CVE-2010-3435 issue.

All pam users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues.

4. Solution:

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

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

637898 - CVE-2010-3316 pam: pam_xauth missing return value checks from setuid() and similar calls
641335 - CVE-2010-3435 pam: pam_env and pam_mail accessing users' file with root privileges
643043 - CVE-2010-3853 pam: pam_namespace executes namespace.init with service's environment

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src.rpm

i386:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm

x86_64:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src.rpm

i386:
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm

x86_64:
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.src.rpm

i386:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm

ia64:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ia64.rpm

ppc:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc.rpm
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc64.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc64.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390.rpm
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390x.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390x.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-3316.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-3435.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-3853.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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