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breach watch Ubuntu security notices July 23, 2026

USN-8601-1: PAM vulnerability

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It was discovered that PAM had a timing discrepancy in the pam_userdb module when comparing plaintext passwords. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information by measuring response-timing differences during repeated authentication attempts.

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