ESSA-2026:0163

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2026-08-27 11:26 - Updated: 2026-09-17 12:33
Summary
Moderate: pam security update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Moderate: pam security update
Description of the patch: Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fix(es): linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pam_userdb module (CVE-2026-54411)
Patchnames: ESSA-2026:0163
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 9:pam-0:1.5.1-28.el9_8.1.i686 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 9:pam-0:1.5.1-28.el9_8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 9:pam-devel-0:1.5.1-28.el9_8.1.i686 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 9:pam-devel-0:1.5.1-28.el9_8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Liberty Linux 9:pam-docs-0:1.5.1-28.el9_8.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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