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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2022-08-24T15:08:58
Updated: 2024-08-03T17:16:04.245Z
Reserved: 2021-12-15T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-4122
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-08-24T16:15:09.427
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:36:56.853
Link: CVE-2021-4122
Redhat