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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2382-1 (ecryptfs-utils)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ecryptfs-utils announced via advisory DSA 2382-1.
Insight
Insight
Several problems have been discovered in ecryptfs-utils, a cryptographic filesystem for Linux. CVE-2011-1831 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested mountpoint. A local attacker could use this flaw to mount to arbitrary locations, leading to privilege escalation. CVE-2011-1832 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested mountpoint. A local attacker could use this flaw to unmount to arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1834 Dan Rosenberg and Marc Deslauriers discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled modifications to the mtab file when an error occurs. A local attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the mtab file, and possibly unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1835 Marc Deslauriers discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled keys when setting up an encrypted private directory. A local attacker could use this flaw to manipulate keys during creation of a new user. CVE-2011-1837 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled lock counters. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly overwrite arbitrary files. We acknowledge the work of the Ubuntu distribution in preparing patches suitable for near-direct inclusion in the Debian package. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 68-1+lenny1. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 83-4+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 95-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your ecryptfs-utils packages.