Candidate: CVE-2004-2135 Description: cryptoloop on Linux kernel 2.6.x, when used on certain file systems with a block size 1024 or greater, has certain "IV computation" weaknesses that allow watermarked files to be detected without decryption. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2135 http://mareichelt.de/pub/notmine/diskenc.pdf http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php?alt_styles=2 Notes: jmm> IIRC there was some serious flaming about the different disk encryption systems, jmm> I'm not sure whether this has been addressed or how real it is jmm> Plus, cryptoloop is marked DEPRECATED for a long time IIRC jmm> It's not included in stock 2.4 kernels, but only available in kernel-patch-cryptoloop, jmm> which is only part of sid and hasn't been shipped with neither Woody nor Sarge, so jmm> I'm marking all these N/A - i am 99% sure that these issues still affect the latest kernels - debian-installer only supports loop-aes and dm-crypt (i believe), which are known to be not affected by these issues, so most users are not affected - i have started an lkml thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/2/232, but it appears that there is no longer any interest in the problems... jmm> Disabled in 2.6.32-2 Bugs: upstream: linux-2.6: released (2.6.32-2) 2.6.18-etch-security: N/A "introduces significant change in funtionality; minor issue" 2.6.24-etch-security: N/A "introduces significant change in funtionality; minor issue" 2.6.26-lenny-security: N/A "introduces significant change in funtionality; minor issue"