Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks

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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 vulnerability (CVE-2025-6019) affects both libblockdev and udisks2 source packages availableUbuntu blogRead More