CVE-2011-3628 (GCVE-0-2011-3628)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-15 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:37
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Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.3-2ubuntu2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10, before 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.4 on Ubuntu 11.04, before 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.4 on Ubuntu 10.10, before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and before 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, when using certain configurations such as "session optional pam_motd.so", allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to reference a malicious command, as demonstrated via uname.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/pam/%… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1237-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2011-05-04 00:00
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