Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1572

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-01-22 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 23:02:11

Assigner canonical

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

mount.ecryptfs_private.c in eCryptfs-utils does not validate mount destination filesystem types, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting over a nonstandard filesystem, as demonstrated by /proc/$pid.

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