Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2959
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-04
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-04
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input (stdin). As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This flaw could result in leaked passwords, such as those found in /etc/shadow while performing authentications. (CVE-2024-10041)
Affected Packages:
pam
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pam or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2959 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
pam-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pam-devel-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pam-debuginfo-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
pam-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.i686
pam-devel-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.i686
pam-debuginfo-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
pam-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
pam-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pam-devel-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pam-debuginfo-1.1.8-23.amzn2.0.3.x86_64