pam security, bug fix, and enhancement update

1.1.1-13 - fix environment file handling problems - CVE-2011-3148 746619 and CVE-2011-3148 746620 1.1.1-12 - add character sequence test to pamcracklib - drop unused difignore option from pamcracklib 811243 - add enforceforroot option to pamcracklib 588893 - mention limits.d in the limits.conf5...

(pam_env): Stack-based buffer overflow by parsing user's pam_environment file

Stack-based buffer overflow in the assembleline function in modules/pamenv/pamenv.c in Linux-PAM aka pam before 1.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string of white spaces at the beginning of the /.pamenvironment file...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3435

The 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam before 1.1.2 use root privileges during read access to files and directories that belong to arbitrary user accounts, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging this filesystem activity, as demonstrated by a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3431

The privilege-dropping implementation in the 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 does not check the return value of the setfsuid system call, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an unintended uid, as demonstrated by a symlink attack on...

pam: pam_env and pam_mail accessing users' file with root privileges

The 1 pamenv and 2 pammail modules in Linux-PAM aka pam before 1.1.2 use root privileges during read access to files and directories that belong to arbitrary user accounts, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging this filesystem activity, as demonstrated by a...