Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ecryptfs-utils package, versions <92-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ECRYPTFSUTILS-597612
  • published3 Oct 2012
  • disclosed3 Oct 2012

Introduced: 3 Oct 2012

CVE-2011-1833  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 ecryptfs-utils to version 92-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ecryptfs-utils package and not the ecryptfs-utils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Race condition in the ecryptfs_mount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to bypass intended file permissions via a mount.ecryptfs_private mount with a mismatched uid.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1