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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ecryptfs-utils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-ECRYPTFSUTILS-600237
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed22 Jul 2016
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Introduced: 22 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-6224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

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.

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.