Advisory Published

USN-1188-1: eCryptfs vulnerabilities

First published: Tue Aug 09 2011(Updated: )

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested mountpoint. A local attacker could use this flaw to mount to arbitrary locations, leading to privilege escalation. (CVE-2011-1831) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested mountpoint. A local attacker could use this flaw to unmount to arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1832) Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly validated permissions on the requested source directory. A local attacker could use this flaw to mount an arbitrary directory, possibly leading to information disclosure. A pending kernel update will provide the other half of the fix for this issue. (CVE-2011-1833) Dan Rosenberg and Marc Deslauriers discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled modifications to the mtab file when an error occurs. A local attacker could use this flaw to corrupt the mtab file, and possibly unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1834) Marc Deslauriers discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled keys when setting up an encrypted private directory. A local attacker could use this flaw to manipulate keys during creation of a new user. (CVE-2011-1835) Marc Deslauriers discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled permissions during recovery. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly access another user's data during the recovery process. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2011-1836) Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly handled lock counters. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly overwrite arbitrary files. The default symlink restrictions in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 should protect against this issue. (CVE-2011-1837)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/ecryptfs-utils<87-0ubuntu1.1
87-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=11.04
All of
ubuntu/ecryptfs-utils<83-0ubuntu3.2.10.10.1
83-0ubuntu3.2.10.10.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=10.10
All of
ubuntu/ecryptfs-utils<83-0ubuntu3.2.10.04.1
83-0ubuntu3.2.10.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=10.04

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