CVE-2016-6224
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 22, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 14, 2016
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20160714 Re: CVE Requests: Information exposure caused by ecryptfs-setup-swap failuresmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160713 CVE Requests: Information exposure caused by ecryptfs-setup-swap failuresmailing-list
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282
- USN-3032-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1597154
- FEDORA-2016-41301e2187vendor-advisory
- https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/882
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