ubuntu · CVE-2016-4484

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Priority: low Published: 2017-01-23 21:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:54:20 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4484 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cryptsetup), 23 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 13, ignored 8, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

The Debian initrd script for the cryptsetup package 2:1.7.3-2 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to gain shell access via many log in attempts with an invalid password.

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