CVE-2016-4484: – Cryptsetup Initrd root Shell

Posted by Hector Marco on Nov 15

Hello All,

Affected package
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Cryptsetup <= 2:1

CVE-ID
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CVE-2016-4484

Description
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A vulnerability in Cryptsetup, concretely in the scripts that unlock the
system partition when the partition is ciphered using LUKS (Linux
Unified Key Setup).

This vulnerability allows to obtain a root initramfs shell on affected
systems. The vulnerability is very reliable because it doesn’t depend on
specific systems or…