{"id":"ALSA-2025:9526","summary":"Important: pam security update","details":"Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal (CVE-2025-6020)\n\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n","modified":"2026-02-04T03:35:27.405905Z","published":"2025-06-24T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2025-6020"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9526"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6020"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2372512"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-9526.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pam","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.1-25.el9_6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:9526.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pam-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.1-25.el9_6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:9526.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pam-docs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam-docs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.1-25.el9_6"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2025:9526.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}