RLSA-2025:15099

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)

* linux-pam: Incomplete fix for CVE-2025-6020 (CVE-2025-8941)

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 9.6 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64

Fixes

2372512 2388220

CVEs

CVE-2025-6020 CVE-2025-8941

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 - BaseOS

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64 - BaseOS

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.i686.rpm pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.x86_64.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.x86_64.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le - BaseOS

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x - BaseOS

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.s390x.rpm pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.s390x.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 aarch64 - AppStream

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-devel-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm pam-docs-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 ppc64le - AppStream

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-devel-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm pam-docs-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 s390x - AppStream

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-devel-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.s390x.rpm pam-docs-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9.6 x86_64 - AppStream

pam-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.src.rpm pam-devel-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.i686.rpm pam-devel-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.x86_64.rpm pam-docs-0:1.5.1-26.el9_6.x86_64.rpm