RLSA-2025:20181

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected products

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le Rocky Linux 10 s390x Rocky Linux 10 x86_64

Fixes

2372512

CVEs

CVE-2025-6020

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - BaseOS

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.src.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - AppStream

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - BaseOS

pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.src.rpm pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - AppStream

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - BaseOS

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.src.rpm pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - BaseOS

pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.src.rpm pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm pam-libs-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - AppStream

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - AppStream

pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10.ppc64le.rpm