Bug 2388220 (CVE-2025-8941) - CVE-2025-8941 linux-pam: Incomplete fix for CVE-2025-6020 [NEEDINFO]
Summary: CVE-2025-8941 linux-pam: Incomplete fix for CVE-2025-6020
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-8941
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-08-13 12:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-03 14:03 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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carnil: needinfo? (prodsec-dev)


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2025:15459 0 None None None 2025-09-08 13:36:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2025:15610 0 None None None 2025-09-10 11:20:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15099 0 None None None 2025-09-03 00:50:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15100 0 None None None 2025-09-03 00:41:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15101 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:21:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15102 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:25:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15103 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:26:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15104 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:26:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15105 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:26:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15106 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:28:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15107 0 None None None 2025-09-03 01:11:48 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15827 0 None None None 2025-09-15 15:13:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:15828 0 None None None 2025-09-15 15:14:11 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-13 12:39:41 UTC
CVE-2025-8941 – this is the “complete” fix for CVE-2025-6020, a directory-traversal privilege escalation in Linux-PAM’s pam_namespace module. The upstream patch fully addresses the symlink and race-condition attack vectors that were previously mitigated only partially.

Comment 1 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2025-08-19 12:52:33 UTC
Hi 

The description is not fully clear about that: Is this CVE for a Red Hat specific incomplte fix? The description above say "The upstream patch fully addresses the symlink and race-condition attack vectors that were previously mitigated only partially." so this sound that upstream was fine at every point in time with the patches and the CVE is specific for a Red Hat update for CVE-2025-6020? Can you please clarify?

Regards,
Salvatore

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 00:41:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:15100 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15100

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 00:50:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:15099 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15099

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:11:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:15107 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15107

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:21:41 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:15101 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15101

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:25:55 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:15102 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15102

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:26:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On

Via RHSA-2025:15104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15104

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:26:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:15103 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15103

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:26:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:15105 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15105

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-03 01:28:26 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support

Via RHSA-2025:15106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15106

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-15 15:13:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Web Terminal 1.12 on RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2025:15827 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15827

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-15 15:14:10 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2025:15828 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15828


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