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GLSA-202507-02 : UDisks, libblockdev: Privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 241124

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202507-02 (UDisks, libblockdev: Privilege escalation)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202507-02

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958339

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241124

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202507-02.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2025

Updated: 7/1/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6019

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:libblockdev, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:udisks

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6019