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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:07:28 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
Subject: Re: ecryptfs headsup

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On 07/10/2012 05:33 AM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We made a hardening patch for ecryptfs utils. It is finally ready, 
> using sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) :)
> 
> I dont know whether a CVE is needed, maybe if you already ship it
> suid root (we do not).
> 
> It can be found here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740110
> 
> Sebastian

Well what is the security vulnerability / trust boundary that can be
broken using this issue?

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993



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