eCryptfs 104 and earlier uses a default salt to encrypt the mount passphrase, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain user passwords via a brute force attack.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ecryptfs-utils: default salt is used for wrapping passphrase (CVE-2014-9687)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ecryptfs-utils: default salt is used for wrapping passphrase (CVE-2014-9687)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ecryptfs-utils: default salt is used for wrapping passphrase (CVE-2014-9687)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-1572: A local user could have escalated     privileges by mounting over special filesystems     (bsc#962052)

  - CVE-2014-9687: A default salt value reduced complexity     of offline precomputation attacks (bsc#920160) This     update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update     project.

This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-1572: A local user could have escalated     privileges by mounting over special filesystems     (bsc#962052)

  - CVE-2014-9687: A default salt value reduced complexity     of offline precomputation attacks (bsc#920160)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Sylvain Pelissier discovered that eCryptfs did not generate a random salt when encrypting the mount passphrase with the login password. An attacker could use this issue to discover the login password used to protect the mount passphrase and gain unintended access to the encrypted files.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198775	RHEL 6 : ecryptfs-utils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198769	RHEL 5 : ecryptfs-utils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198744	RHEL 7 : ecryptfs-utils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
88544	openSUSE Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (openSUSE-2016-119)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
88508	SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2016:0290-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
88408	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2016:0241-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
81756	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : eCryptfs vulnerability (USN-2524-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2014-9687

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