I dunno, I'd slow your roll on that. Hanlon's razor came to notoriety in the field of computer science for a reason. I've done software dev professionally for over ten years now and you wouldn't believe the stupid shit I've seen people write. The only thing that sucks more than a computer is the human writing software for it.

For those unfamiliar, here's Hanlon's razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

EDIT: After a quick look at the CVEs, this definitely sounds like a big ol' fuckup. It sounds like there might be some unsafe defaults in polkit as well?

EDIT: Here's the report from the actual researchers which is MUCH more cogent than OP's article: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/17/4

It's chaining two separate oopsies together. This overview on GitHub also provides more details about the libblockdev side of things: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpgj-hch9-5rvx

Specifically, this section:

However, a local attacker can create a specially crafted XFS image containing a SUID-root shell, then trick udisks into resizing it. This mounts their malicious filesystem with root privileges, allowing them to execute their SUID-root shell and gain complete control of the system.

That really doesn't sound like something intentional to me. That sounds like a HUGE oopsy-woopsy fucky-wucky, to get technical about it.