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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-2a7a853bc7 serious: sudo vulnerability details

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vital update addresses critical privilege escalation flaws in Fedora 41. Ensure you upgrade now for enhanced protection.

pam_namespace: fix potential privilege escalation.

Summary

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.

Update Information:

pam_namespace: fix potential privilege escalation.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical privilege escalation PAM authentication

Change Log

* Tue Jun 24 2025 Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-8 - pam_namespace: fix potential privilege escalation. Resolves: CVE-2025-6020

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-2a7a853bc7 2025-07-10 16:29:02.147486+00:00 Name : pam Product : Fedora 41 Version : 1.6.1 Release : 8.fc41 URL : https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam Summary : An extensible library which provides authentication for applications Description : 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.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-2a7a853bc7' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: pam
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.6.1
Release: 8.fc41
URL: https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam
Summary: An extensible library which provides authentication for applications

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical privilege escalation PAM authentication

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