Executive Summary

Summary
Title encfs: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201512-09 First vendor Publication 2015-12-30
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2015-12-30
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in encfs, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Encfs is an implementation of encrypted filesystem in user-space using FUSE.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in encfs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker can utilize a possible buffer overflow in the encodeName method of StreamNameIO and BlockNameIO to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service. Also multiple weak cryptographics practices have been found in encfs.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All encfs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/encfs-1.7.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3462 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3462

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-09

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201512-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-82.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-04 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201512-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2017-08-18 17:25:34
  • Multiple Updates
2017-08-08 05:23:24
  • Multiple Updates
2016-01-05 13:26:40
  • Multiple Updates
2015-12-30 17:22:55
  • First insertion