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Fedora 23 : ecryptfs-utils (2016-70b5173c05)

low Nessus Plugin ID 94485

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- ecryptfs-utils updated to 111

 - fix ecryptfs-setup-swap improperly configures encrypted swap when using GPT partitioning on a NVMe or MMC drive (CVE-2016-6224, rhbz#1356828)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ecryptfs-utils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-70b5173c05

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 94485

File Name: fedora_2016-70b5173c05.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2016

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ecryptfs-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8946, CVE-2016-6224