Advisories » MGASA-2022-0047

Updated cryptsetup packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-4122

Description

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress
with crashed (unfinished) reencryption step and persistently decrypt part
of the LUKS device (CVE-2021-4122).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29884
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/13/2
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4122

SRPMS

8/core

• cryptsetup-2.3.7-1.mga8