Affected: storaged-project udisks, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions and 7 more

A flaw was found in the Udisks daemon, where it allows unprivileged users to create loop devices using the D-BUS system. This is achieved via the loop device handler, which handles requests sent through the D-BUS interface. As two of the parameters of this handle, it receives the file descriptor list and index specifying the file where the loop device should be backed. The function itself validates the index value to ensure it isn't bigger than the maximum value allowed. However, it fails to validate the lower bound, allowing the index parameter to be a negative value. Under these circumstances, an attacker can cause the UDisks daemon to crash or perform a local privilege escalation by gaining access to files owned by privileged users.

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: udisks2, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: udisks2, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: udisks2, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: udisks2, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: udisks2, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: udisks2

Michael Imfeld discovered that UDisks did not check the validity of input data correctly when handling files for loop devices. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.