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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2011-3145

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CVE-2011-3145

ecryptfs-utils: incorrect mtab group ownership

Published Modified CWE 254
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium).

Description

When mount.ecrpytfs_private before version 87-0ubuntu1.2 calls setreuid() it doesn't also set the effective group id. So when it creates the new version, mtab.tmp, it's created with the group id of the user running mount.ecryptfs_private.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 12ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 13ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 14ecryptfs-utils92-1
echoecryptfs-utils92-1
Oracle Linux 5ecryptfs-utils, ecryptfs-utils-devel, ecryptfs-utils-gui75-5.el5_7.2
Oracle Linux 6ecryptfs-utils, ecryptfs-utils-devel, ecryptfs-utils-python82-6.el6_1.3
Show all 11 entries from 7 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 12ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 13ecryptfs-utils92-1
debian 14ecryptfs-utils92-1
echoecryptfs-utils92-1
Oracle Linux 5ecryptfs-utils75-5.el5_7.2
Oracle Linux 5ecryptfs-utils-devel75-5.el5_7.2
Oracle Linux 5ecryptfs-utils-gui75-5.el5_7.2
Oracle Linux 6ecryptfs-utils82-6.el6_1.3
Oracle Linux 6ecryptfs-utils-devel82-6.el6_1.3
Oracle Linux 6ecryptfs-utils-python82-6.el6_1.3

References

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