CVE-2010-0832: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 in PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and libpam-modules before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 in PAM on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .cache in a user's home directory, related to "user file stamps" and the motd.legal-notice file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 9.10 only

Published 2010-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.