RHSA-2024:3163 - Security Advisory

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 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):

• pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace (CVE-2024-22365)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2257722 - CVE-2024-22365 pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace
• RHEL-5057 - Add support for bcrypt password hashes for local users
• RHEL-19810 - Faillock does not create tallydir
• RHEL-3374 - Using "pam_access", ssh login fails with this entry in /etc/security/access.conf "+:username:localhost server1.example.com"

CVEs

• CVE-2024-22365

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index