Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two local privilege escalation LPE flaws that could be exploited to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The vulnerabilities, discovered by Qualys, are listed below - CVE-2025-6018 - LPE from unprivileged to allowactive in...

SUSE-SU-2025:02001-1 Security update for pam

This update for pam fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-6018: pamenv: Change the default to not read the user .pamenvironment file bsc1243226. - pamnamespace: convert functions that may operate on a user-controlled path to operate on file descriptors instead of absolute path bsc1244509...

OESA-2025-1599 pam security update

PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is a system of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of applications services on the system. Security Fixes: A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23013

In Yubico pam-u2f before 1.3.1, local privilege escalation can sometimes occur. This product implements a Pluggable Authentication Module PAM that can be deployed to support authentication using a YubiKey or other FIDO compliant authenticators on macOS or Linux. This software package has an issue...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: pam-1.6.1-7.fc41

PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam:1.5.1 security update

An update for the pam:1.5.1 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eac...

Important: pam:1.5.1 security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: pam: Improper Hostname Interpretation in pamaccess Leads to Access Control Bypass CVE-2024-10963 For more details about the...

pam: libpam: Libpam vulnerable to read hashed password

A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input stdin. As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This fla...

AZL-51729 CVE-2024-10041 affecting package pam for versions less than 1.5.3-4

A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input stdin. As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This fla...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-10041

A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input stdin. As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This fla...

SUSE CVE-1999-0342

Linux PAM modules allow local users to gain root access using temporary files...

Moderate: pam security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace CVE-2024-22365 For more details about the security issues,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

Moderate: pam security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace CVE-2024-22365 For more details about the security issues,...

USN-6588-2: PAM vulnerability

USN-6588-1 fixed a vulnerability in PAM. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Matthias Gerstner discovered that the PAM pamnamespace module incorrectly handled special files when performing director...

Devolutions Server Security Vulnerability

Devolutions Server is an application from Devolutions Canada. It provides a full-featured shared account and password management solution. A security vulnerability exists in Devolutions Server version 2023.3.14.0 and prior versions, which originates from PAM password rotation during the sign-in...

USN-6588-1: PAM vulnerability

Matthias Gerstner discovered that the PAM pamnamespace module incorrectly handled special files when performing directory checks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PAM to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40184

xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol RDP server. In versions prior to 0.9.23 improper handling of session establishment errors allows bypassing OS-level session restrictions. The authstartsession function can return non-zero 1 value on, e.g., PAM error which may result in in session...