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SUSE: CVE-2021-4122: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2021-4122: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/20/2022
Created
01/25/2022
Added
01/21/2022
Modified
10/26/2022

Description

It was found that a specially crafted LUKS header could trick cryptsetup into disabling encryption during the recovery of the device. An attacker with physical access to the medium, such as a flash disk, could use this flaw to force a user into permanently disabling the encryption layer of that medium.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cryptsetup
  • suse-upgrade-cryptsetup-lang
  • suse-upgrade-cryptsetup-ssh
  • suse-upgrade-libcryptsetup-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libcryptsetup12
  • suse-upgrade-libcryptsetup12-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libcryptsetup12-hmac
  • suse-upgrade-libcryptsetup12-hmac-32bit

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