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CVE-2016-6224

N/A

Description

ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning on a (1) NVMe or (2) MMC drive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8946.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/22/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxecryptfs:ecryptfs-utils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1(cve@mitre.org)

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/882(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1597154(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5WWCVHDLRLZTYMXEIONYFHLYAXXLJW3/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/882(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1597154(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5WWCVHDLRLZTYMXEIONYFHLYAXXLJW3/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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