vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2024-22365: Moderate: pam security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 6, 2024
Added
May 8, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-pamalma-upgrade-pam-develalma-upgrade-pam-docs
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