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Oracle Linux 8 pam Important Update ELSA-2025-14557 CVE-2025-6020

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2025
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 security update addresses critical privilege escalation vulnerability detailed in ELSA-2025-14558 advisory.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[1.3.1-38.0.1] - pam_limits: fix use after free in pam_sm_open_session [Orabug: 36272695] [1.3.1-38] - pam_namespace: fix potential privilege escalation. Resolves: CVE-2025-6020 and RHEL-96724

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security advisory privilege escalation important PAM Oracle Linux priority

SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/pam-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.src.rpm

x86_64

pam-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.i686.rpm pam-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm pam-devel-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.i686.rpm pam-devel-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

pam-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm pam-devel-1.3.1-38.0.1.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2025-6020

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security advisory privilege escalation important PAM Oracle Linux priority

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