CVE-2015-8946 (GCVE-0-2015-8946)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-07-22 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:36
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Summary
ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs before 111 does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning and certain versions of systemd, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2015-08-04 00:00
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