CVE-2011-1836 Information

Description

utils/ecryptfs-recover-private in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not establish a subdirectory with safe permissions which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions via standard filesystem operations during the recovery process.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00009.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1188-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729465 https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+download