Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201601-25
=========================================
Severity: Critical
Date    : 2016-01-25
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-1572
Package : ecryptfs-utils
Type    : privilege escalation
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
======
The package ecryptfs-utils before version 108-2 is vulnerable to
privilege escalation.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 108-2.

# pacman -Syu "ecryptfs-utils>=108-2"

The problem has been fixed upstream and the patch has been applied.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
An unprivileged user can mount an ecryptfs over /proc/$pid because
according to stat(), it is a normal directory and owned by the user.
However, the user is not actually permitted to create arbitrary
directory entries in /proc/$pid, and ecryptfs' behavior might be
enabling privilege escalation attacks with the help of other programs
that use procfs.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker is able to elevate the privileges and gain
unauthorized root access.

References
=========
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1572
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1530566
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/870

ArchLinux: 201601-25: ecryptfs-utils: privilege escalation

January 25, 2016

Summary

An unprivileged user can mount an ecryptfs over /proc/$pid because according to stat(), it is a normal directory and owned by the user. However, the user is not actually permitted to create arbitrary directory entries in /proc/$pid, and ecryptfs' behavior might be enabling privilege escalation attacks with the help of other programs that use procfs.

Resolution

Upgrade to 108-2. # pacman -Syu "ecryptfs-utils>=108-2"
The problem has been fixed upstream and the patch has been applied.

References

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1572 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1530566 https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/870

Severity
Package : ecryptfs-utils
Type : privilege escalation
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Workaround

None.

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