vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-22365: pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 6, 2024
Added
May 1, 2024
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-pamredhat-upgrade-pam-debuginforedhat-upgrade-pam-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-pam-develredhat-upgrade-pam-docs
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