# ALSA-2025:14557: Security update for 2 packages

ALSA-2025:14557, released August 26, 2025, fixes 2 CVEs across 2 products. None of them is reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/alsa-2025-14557
- Platform: Linux
- Released: Aug 26, 2025
- Priority: High (Closes CVE-2025-6020, high severity)
- CVEs: 2, exploited: 0, on CISA KEV: 0
- Vendor advisory: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALSA-2025:14557

## Applies to

| Product | Release | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| [pam](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/pam.md) | almalinux 8 | 1.3.1-38.el8_10 |
| [pam-devel](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/pam-devel.md) | almalinux 8 | 1.3.1-38.el8_10 |

## CVEs this fix closes

| CVE | Priority | Title | CVSS | EPSS | Exploitation |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| [CVE-2025-6020](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-6020.md) | High | Linux-pam: linux-pam directory traversal | 7.8 | 0.0047 |  |
| [CVE-2025-8941](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-8941.md) | High | pam: Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompi... | 7.8 | 0.0028 |  |

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Data as of 2026-11-07T12:40:37Z UTC. Source: Patchblox Patch Radar (https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar). Patchblox finds out-of-date software on Windows, macOS and Linux and updates it through release rings: https://patchblox.com/demo