RHSA-2024:10379 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 27, 2024

Updated · October 13, 2026

Topic

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.

Security Fix(es):

  • pam: libpam: Libpam vulnerable to read hashed password (CVE-2024-10041)

  • pam: Improper Hostname Interpretation in pam_access Leads to Access Control Bypass (CVE-2024-10963)

For 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.

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