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Debian DSA-3823-1 Moderate: Eject Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2017
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The Debian security notice DSA-3823-1 highlights a serious vulnerability in the eject utility. Users are advised to perform an upgrade to reduce potential threats.
Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the dmcrypt-get-device helper used to check if a given device is an encrypted device handled by devmapper, and used in eject, does not check retur...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your eject packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: eject
CVE ID: CVE-2017-6964

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