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ebarretto

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ebarretto
18 June 2025

Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks

Ubuntu Article

Qualys discovered two vulnerabilities in various Linux distributions which allow local attackers to escalate privileges. The first vulnerability (CVE-2025-6018) was found in the PAM configuration. This CVE does not impact default Ubuntu installations because of how the pam_systemd.so and pam_env.so modules are invoked. The second vulnerab ...