CVE-2016-6224

2016-07-2200:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

2.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS3

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1597154>

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	This issue only occurs when systemd and GPT partitioning is in use on an NVMe or MMC drive

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu15.10noarchecryptfs-utils< 108-0ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchecryptfs-utils< 111-0ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN