Security Features Affecting ecryptfs-utils package, versions <92-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ECRYPTFSUTILS-11740923
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed22 Apr 2019

Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2011-3145  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

When mount.ecrpytfs_private before version 87-0ubuntu1.2 calls setreuid() it doesn't also set the effective group id. So when it creates the new version, mtab.tmp, it's created with the group id of the user running mount.ecryptfs_private.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1