CVE-2008-3970 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3970 at MITRE

Description

pam_mount 0.10 through 0.45, when luserconf is enabled, does not verify mountpoint and source ownership before mounting a user-defined volume, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a local mount.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 423557 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:019, published Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:31:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:26 2025