Vulnerability CVE-2016-6224
Published: 2016-07-22

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.

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/882
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1597154
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282
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