GLSA 202507-02: UDisks, libblockdev: Privilege escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	UDisks, libblockdev: Privilege escalation
Date:	07/01/2025
Bugs:	#958339
ID:	202507-02

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UDisks, libblockdev, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Background

UDisks provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies. libblockdev is a library for manipulating block devices.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-libs/libblockdev	< 3.3.0	>= 3.3.0	All supported architectures
sys-fs/udisks	< 2.10.1-r4	>= 2.10.1-r4	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UDisks and libblockdev. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A physical attacker with a local, unprivileged session can escalate privileges to root. Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All UDisks users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/udisks-2.10.1-r4"

All libblockdev users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/libblockdev-3.3.0"

References

CVE-2025-6019

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202507-02.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.