Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-1132
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-08
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-08
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
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update pam --releasever 2023.8.20250808 or dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2025-1132 --releasever 2023.8.20250808 to update your system.
More information on how to update your system can be found on this page: Amazon Linux 2023 documentation
New Packages:
aarch64:
pam-debugsource-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.aarch64
pam-docs-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.aarch64
pam-devel-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.aarch64
pam-debuginfo-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.aarch64
pam-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.aarch64
src:
pam-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.src
x86_64:
pam-devel-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.x86_64
pam-docs-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.x86_64
pam-debugsource-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.x86_64
pam-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.x86_64
pam-debuginfo-1.5.1-8.amzn2023.0.5.x86_64