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Fedora 23: 2016-b02ad4e424 Moderate: eCryptfs-Utils Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial announcement for ecryptfs-utils within Fedora 23 focusing on fixing privilege escalation flaws and bolstering security measures.
- manpage ecryptfs-migrate-home.8: Fix typos - clang static analysis fixes - Refuse to mount over non-standard filesystems.

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:

- manpage ecryptfs-migrate-home.8: Fix typos - clang static analysis fixes - Refuse to mount over non-standard filesystems.

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security advisory moderate security issue fedora privilege escalation ecryptfs-utils

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1300595 - CVE-2016-1572 ecryptfs-utils: privilege escalation by mounting over /proc/$pid [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300595 [ 2 ] Bug #1301239 - ecryptfs-utils-109.orig is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301239

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 .

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Name: ecryptfs-utils
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 109
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs
Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue fedora privilege escalation ecryptfs-utils

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