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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-08-24T15:08:58

Updated: 2022-08-24T15:08:58

Reserved: 2021-12-15T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-4122

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-08-24T16:15:09.427

Modified: 2022-08-29T14:28:45.370


Link: CVE-2021-4122

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE