ubuntu · CVE-2016-6224

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-07-22 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:33 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6224 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ecryptfs-utils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): not-affected 2, released 2, pending 1.

Description:

ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning on a (1) NVMe or (2) MMC drive, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8946.

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