Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 428
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 428

Slackware 15.0: udisks2 Critical Local Escalation Fix SSA:2025-242-01

slackware
Calendar Grey August 30, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated udisks2 versions are released for Slackware addressing significant local privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
New udisks2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/udisks2-2.9.4-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue where an attacker can cause the UDisks daemon to crash or perform a local privilege escalation by gaining access to files owned by privileged users. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8067 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix slackware local escalation udisks2

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/udisks2-2.9.4-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/udisks2-2.9.4-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/udisks2-2.10.2-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/udisks2-2.10.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 9026fa291739c0b02163be4ff41209ce udisks2-2.9.4-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: d31ac1b432a3d53ec5e8f39b70c8f27a udisks2-2.9.4-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 85eb445da6cc5a8766590aa52e820a0d a/udisks2-2.10.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 754d95816f85d27ccb2eab91afb0526e a/udisks2-2.10.2-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix slackware local escalation udisks2

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg udisks2-2.9.4-i586-2_slack15.0.txz