CVE-2011-1836

NameCVE-2011-1836
Descriptionutils/ecryptfs-recover-private in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not establish a subdirectory with safe permissions, which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions via standard filesystem operations during the recovery process.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ecryptfs-utils (PTS)bullseye111-5fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm111-6fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ecryptfs-utilssourcelenny(not affected)
ecryptfs-utilssourcesqueeze(not affected)
ecryptfs-utilssource(unstable)92-1

Notes

[squeeze] - ecryptfs-utils <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[lenny] - ecryptfs-utils <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)

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