GLSA-202505-01 : PAM: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235706

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202505-01 (PAM: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PAM. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All PAM users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-libs/pam-1.7.0_p20241230

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235706

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202505-01.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 5/12/2025

Updated: 5/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-10041

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pam, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10041

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