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Gentoo: PAM High Multiple Issues Privilege Escalation GLSA 202508-01

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2025
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Serious vulnerabilities identified in PAM on Gentoo pose a threat to privilege escalation. Immediate action recommended.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

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 Gentoo privilege escalation multiple issues high authentication

Resolution

All PAM users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/pam-1.7.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2024-10963 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10963 [ 2 ] CVE-2025-6020 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6020

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202508-01
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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: August 06, 2025
Bugs: #958320
ID: 202508-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo privilege escalation multiple issues high authentication

Synopsis

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

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 < 1.7.1 >= 1.7.1

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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