CVE-2021-4122

Publication date

2022-08-24 15:08:58

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

It was found that a specially crafted LUKS header could trick cryptsetup into disabling encryption during the recovery of the device. An attacker with physical access to the medium, such as a flash disk, could use this flaw to force a user into permanently disabling the encryption layer of that medium.