CVE-2011-1836

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1188-1

Posted Aug 10, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1188-1 - 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. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-1831, CVE-2011-1832, CVE-2011-1833, CVE-2011-1834, CVE-2011-1835, CVE-2011-1836, CVE-2011-1837

SHA-256 | fe2f44aca4f4d78e3767514f59f7522f711afb4689ded54a89988c06b03f35e8

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