PublicDateAtUSN: 2011-01-24
Candidate: CVE-2010-4707
PublicDate: 2011-01-24 19:00:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4707
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1140-1
Description:
 The check_acl function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM
 (aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier does not verify that a certain ACL file is a
 regular file, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service
 (resource consumption) via a special file.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> pam_xauth not enabled in the default install
 mdeslaur> see complete patch list in CVE-2010-3435
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611136
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_pam:
 upstream: http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=pam.git;a=commit;h=ffe7058c70253d574b1963c7c93002bd410fddc9
upstream_pam: released (1.1.3)
dapper_pam: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hardy_pam: released (0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.3)
karmic_pam: ignored (reached end-of-life)
lucid_pam: released (1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2)
maverick_pam: released (1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2)
natty_pam: released (1.1.2-2ubuntu8.2)
devel_pam: released (1.1.3-1ubuntu2)