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openSUSE Leap 15.6 advisory - CVE-2025-6018 important: pam-config issue

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2025
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An important advisory for pam-config has been released regarding CVE-2025-6018 within openSUSE systems, highlighting essential steps for implementation of patches.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for pam-config fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-6018: Stop adding pam_env in AUTH stack, and be sure to put this

module at the really end of the SESSION stack (bsc#1243226).

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2080=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2080=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2080=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2080=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* pam-config-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debugsource-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debuginfo-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* pam-config-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debugsource-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debuginfo-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* pam-config-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debugsource-1.1-150600.16.8.1

* pam-config-debuginfo-1.1-150600.16.8.1

References

* bsc#1243226

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02080-1
Release Date: 2025-06-24T10:26:31Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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