PT-2019-6768
CVE-2012-3409
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Published
2019-12-20
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Updated
2020-01-03
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
ecryptfs-utils (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to the suid helper in ecryptfs-utils, which does not properly restrict mounting filesystems with nosuid and nodev options. This oversight creates a possible privilege escalation scenario.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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