Issued at: 2025-09-08
Updated at: 2025-09-08
Synopsis
Important: pam security update
Description
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.
Security Fix(es):
* linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal (CVE-2025-6020)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected products
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64
Fixes
2372512
2388220
CVEs
CVE-2025-6020
CVE-2025-8941
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - BaseOS
pam-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
pam-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.src.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
pam-debugsource-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
pam-devel-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - BaseOS
pam-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.i686.rpm
pam-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.src.rpm
pam-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.i686.rpm
pam-debuginfo-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
pam-debugsource-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.i686.rpm
pam-debugsource-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
pam-devel-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.i686.rpm
pam-devel-0:1.3.1-38.el8_10.x86_64.rpm