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MGASA-2022-0047 - Updated cryptsetup packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0047.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2021-4122

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress
with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step and persistently decrypt part
of the LUKS device (CVE-2021-4122).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29884
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/13/2
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4122

SRPMS:
- 8/core/cryptsetup-2.3.7-1.mga8

Mageia 2022-0047: cryptsetup security update

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step and persistently decrypt part of the LUKS device (CVE-2021-41...

Summary

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step and persistently decrypt part of the LUKS device (CVE-2021-4122).