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🛡️ ALSA-2025:9878 — libblockdev (CVE-2025-6019)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: libblockdev security update

The libblockdev packages provide a C library with GObject introspection support used for low-level operations on block devices. The library serves as a thin wrapper around plug-ins for specific functionality, such as LVM, Btrfs, LUKS, or MD RAID.

Security Fix(es):

  • libblockdev: LPE from allow_active to root in libblockdev via udisks (CVE-2025-6019)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2025:9878 is recorded against 28 packages.

  • libblockdev (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-crypto (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-crypto-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-dm (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-fs (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-fs-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-kbd (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-loop (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-loop-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-lvm (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-lvm-dbus (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-lvm-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-mdraid (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-mdraid-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-mpath (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-nvdimm (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-part (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-part-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-plugins-all (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-s390 (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-swap (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-swap-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-utils (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
Show the remaining 4 packages
  • libblockdev-utils-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-vdo (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • libblockdev-vdo-devel (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)
  • python3-blockdev (fixed in 2.28-7.el8_10)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 June 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

libblockdev has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-06-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libblockdev — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-crypto — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-crypto-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-dm — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-fs — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-fs-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-kbd — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-loop — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-loop-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-lvm — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-lvm-dbus — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-lvm-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-mdraid — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-mdraid-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-mpath — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-nvdimm — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-part — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-part-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-plugins-all — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-s390 — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-swap — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-swap-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-utils — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-utils-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-vdo — 2.28-7.el8_10
libblockdev-vdo-devel — 2.28-7.el8_10
python3-blockdev — 2.28-7.el8_10

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