Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1831

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-02-15 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:37:25
Assigner canonical
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly check mountpoint permissions, which allows local users to effectively replace any directory with a new filesystem, and consequently gain privileges, via a mount system call.