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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 202505-01
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 Severity: High
    Title: PAM: Multiple Vulnerabilities
     Date: May 12, 2025
     Bugs: #922397, #942075
       ID: 202505-01

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM, the worst of which
could lead to password leakage.

Background
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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.

Affected packages
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Package       Vulnerable         Unaffected
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sys-libs/pam  < 1.7.0_p20241230  >= 1.7.0_p20241230

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

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All PAM users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/pam-1.7.0_p20241230"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2024-10041
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10041

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202505-01

Concerns?
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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.

License
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Copyright 2025 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5