INFSA-2025:9526: pam security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:9526

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-07 18:08:20 UTC

Information about package

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-6020

    A flaw was found in linux-pam. The module pam_namespace may use access user-controlled paths without proper protection, allowing local users to elevate their privileges to root via multiple symlink attacks and race conditions.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
NIST — CVE-2025-6020
 no information 7.8 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages