ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning on a (1) NVMe or (2) MMC drive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8946.

This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-8946: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures     encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning (bsc#989121)

  - CVE-2016-6224: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures     encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning on a NVMe or     MMC drive (bsc#989122)

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.

This update for ecryptfs-utils fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-8946: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures     encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning (bsc#989121)

  - CVE-2016-6224: ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures     encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning on a NVMe or     MMC drive (bsc#989122)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

- ecryptfs-utils updated to 111

  - fix ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures encrypted     swap when using GPT partitioning on a NVMe or MMC drive     (CVE-2016-6224, rhbz#1356828)

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3032-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that eCryptfs incorrectly configured the encrypted swap partition for certain drive     types. An attacker could use this issue to discover sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
106577	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (SUSE-SU-2018:0336-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
106570	openSUSE Security Update : ecryptfs-utils (openSUSE-2018-126)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
94485	Fedora 23 : ecryptfs-utils (2016-70b5173c05)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
92441	Fedora 24 : ecryptfs-utils (2016-41301e2187)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
92311	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : eCryptfs vulnerability (USN-3032-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	low

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