Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ecryptfs-utils package, versions <0:82-6.el6_1.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-ECRYPTFSUTILS-1432077
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Aug 2011

Introduced: 9 Aug 2011

CVE-2011-1837  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 ecryptfs-utils to version 0:82-6.el6_1.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2011:1241.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The lock-counter implementation in utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Scores

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