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PAM: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202508-01

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

Affected packages

Package sys-libs/pam on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.7.1
Unaffected versions >= 1.7.1

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.

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PAM users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/pam-1.7.1"

References

Release date
August 06, 2025

Latest revision
August 06, 2025: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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