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New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions (thehackernews.com)
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[โ€“] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is said in the article:

To mitigate the risk posed by these flaws, it's essential to apply patches provided by the Linux distribution vendors. As temporary workarounds, users can modify the Polkit rule for "org.freedesktop.udisks2.modify-device" to require administrator authentication ("auth_admin").

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