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Fedora 42: udisks2 2025-6ef0c40f95 critical: root privilege escalation

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent systemd update in Fedora 42 enhances protective protocols to mitigate risks associated with unauthorized root privilege escalation.
Harden temporary private mounts (#2373301)

Summary

The Udisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and

manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies.

Update Information:

Harden temporary private mounts (#2373301)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical privilege escalation exploitation disk manager

Change Log

* Thu Jun 19 2025 Tomas Bzatek - 2.10.90-3 - Harden temporary private mounts (#2373301)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2373301 - libblockdev allegedly exploitable via the udisks daemon included by default on most Linux distributions, and allows an “allow_active” user to gain full root privileges (CVE-2025-6019) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373301

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-6ef0c40f95' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: udisks2
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 2.10.90
Release: 3.fc42
URL: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks
Summary: Disk Manager

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical privilege escalation exploitation disk manager

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