CVE-2015-8946: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ecryptfs-setup-swap in eCryptfs before 111 does not prevent the unencrypted swap partition from activating during boot when using GPT partitioning and certain versions of systemd, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Ecryptfs Ecryptfs-Utils: up to and including 110

Published 2016-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.