{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2010-10-22T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pam: pam_namespace executes namespace.init with service's environment",
    "id" : "643043",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643043"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "pam_namespace.c in the pam_namespace module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.3 uses the environment of the invoking application or service during execution of the namespace.init script, which might allow local users to gain privileges by running a setuid program that relies on the pam_namespace PAM check, as demonstrated by the sudo program." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0819",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "pam-0:0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0891",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "pam-0:1.1.1-4.el6_0.1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pam",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3853\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3853" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-3853",
  "csaw" : false
}