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CVE-2017-6964

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-252

Description

dmcrypt-get-device, as shipped in the eject package of Debian and Ubuntu, does not check the return value of the (1) setuid or (2) setgid function, which might cause dmcrypt-get-device to execute code, which was intended to run as an unprivileged user, as root. This affects eject through 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1 on Debian, eject before 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1ubuntu0.16.10.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, eject before 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1ubuntu0.16.04.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, eject before 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1ubuntu0.14.04.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and eject before 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-9ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3823
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97154
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1673627
• https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3246-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3823
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3823
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97154
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1673627
• https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3246-1/

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