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Gentoo: GLSA 202505-01 High Severity: PAM Multiple Threats

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2025
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Uncover a range of critical weaknesses in PAM that might result in credential exposure and pose serious security threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM, the worst of which could lead to password leakage.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo multiple threats pam password leakage

Resolution

All PAM users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/pam-1.7.0_p20241230"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2024-10041 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10041

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202505-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: PAM: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: May 12, 2025
Bugs: #922397, #942075
ID: 202505-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo multiple threats pam password leakage

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM, the worst of which could lead to password leakage.

Background

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------ ----------------- ------------------ sys-libs/pam < 1.7.0_p20241230 >= 1.7.0_p20241230

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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