{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2011-08-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ecryptfs: multiple flaws to mount/umount arbitrary locations and possibly disclose confidential information",
    "id" : "729465",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729465"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly check mountpoint permissions, which allows local users to effectively replace any directory with a new filesystem, and consequently gain privileges, via a mount system call." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Ubuntu Security Team for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Dan Rosenberg, Marc Deslauriers, and Vasiliy Kulikov (Openwall) as the original reporters.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-08-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1241",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "ecryptfs-utils-0:75-5.el5_7.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-08-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1241",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ecryptfs-utils-0:82-6.el6_1.3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1831\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1831" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-1831",
  "csaw" : false
}