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RHSA-2026:61228 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 31, 2026

Updated · October 30, 2026

Topic

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):

  • linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pam_userdb module (CVE-2026-54411)

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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