Fedora 22: ecryptfs-utils Security Update 2015-10656
Summary
eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in Linux
kernel versions 2.6.19 and above. This package provides the mount
helper and supporting libraries to perform key management and mount
functions.
Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs.
Update Information:
Fixes salt usage for password wrapping
Change Log
* Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1193092 - ecryptfs-utils: default salt is used for wrapping passphrase [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193092 [ 2 ] Bug #1234204 - 20+: Bug in ecryptfs found in 2015.(security) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234204
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ecryptfs-utils' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .