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CVE-2016-1572 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ecryptfs-utils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily): released 5.
mount.ecryptfs_private.c in eCryptfs-utils does not validate mount destination filesystem types, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting over a nonstandard filesystem, as demonstrated by /proc/$pid.