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ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 12 days ago

New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions

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New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions

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ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 12 days ago
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Linux systems face critical local privilege escalation threats via CVE-2025-6018/6019 flaws—users must patch now.
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    Would implementing something like this prevent this problem?

    https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/securing-fedora-with-fido2-utrust-full-disk-luks-gui-login-and-sudo-authentication/154136

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      That is a setup guide for hardware key and passkey auth. It is not a hardening guide, and does nothing to mitigate these LPE vulns.

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        Thank you. That’s what I wanted to know.

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    Oof massive cve. It was disclosed so I’m assuming its already patched?

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