USN-2876-1

Jann Horn discovered that mount.ecryptfs_private would mount over certain directories in the proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2016-1572)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / ecryptfs-utils

Package

Name: ecryptfs-utils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ecryptfs-utils@104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4

Affected versions

Other

103-0ubuntu2

104-0ubuntu1

104-0ubuntu1.*

104-0ubuntu1.14.04.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ecryptfs-utils",
            "binary_version": "104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libecryptfs-dev",
            "binary_version": "104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libecryptfs0",
            "binary_version": "104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-ecryptfs",
            "binary_version": "104-0ubuntu1.14.04.4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-1572",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}