CVE-2024-22365: Linux-Pam

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

Affected products

• Linux-Pam Linux-Pam: before 1.6.0 (fixed in 1.6.0)

Published 2024-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.