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Bug 1356825 - (CVE-2015-8946) CVE-2015-8946 ecryptfs-utils: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning
CVE-2015-8946 ecryptfs-utils: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures encry...
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20150804,repor...
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Depends On: 1356826
Blocks: 1356829
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Reported: 2016-07-15 02:45 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2016-11-08 04:51 EST (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-07-15 02:45:17 EDT
A vulnerability was found in ecryptfs-setup-swap script that is provided by the upstream ecryptfs-utils project.

On systems using systemd 211 or newer and GPT partitioning, the unencrypted swap partition was being automatically activated during boot and the encrypted swap was not used. This was due to ecryptfs-setup-swap not marking the swap partition as "no-auto", as defined by the Discoverable Partitions Spec.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/52

Debian bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282

Fix:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/857
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-07-15 02:45:42 EDT
Created ecryptfs-utils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1356826]

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