vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-1196-1 (CVE-2011-3145): eCryptfs vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 22, 2019
Added
Nov 8, 2024
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

When mount.ecrpytfs_private before version 87-0ubuntu1.2 calls setreuid() it doesn't also set the effective group id. So when it creates the new version, mtab.tmp, it's created with the group id of the user running mount.ecryptfs_private.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-ecryptfs-utils
Title
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