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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-432b207745 Critical: pam privilege escalation

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Advisory: Important sudo patch resolves CVE-2025-6005, mitigating dangers of unauthorized access through elevated permissions.
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. Resolves: CVE-2025-6020

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security advisory fedora update critical privilege escalation pam

Change Log

* Wed Jun 18 2025 Iker Pedrosa - 1.7.0-6 - pam_namespace: fix potential privilege escalation. Resolves: CVE-2025-6020

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-432b207745 2025-06-21 01:25:36.028815+00:00 Name : pam Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.7.0 Release : 6.fc42 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-2025-432b207745' 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 42
Version: 1.7.0
Release: 6.fc42
URL: https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam
Summary: An extensible library which provides authentication for applications

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