Vulnerability CVE-2015-8946
Published: 2016-07-22

Description:
ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs before 111 does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning and certain versions of systemd, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Ecryptfs -> Ecryptfs-utils 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/857
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282
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