cve/2016/CVE-2016-4484.md

### [CVE-2016-4484](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4484)
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### Description

The Debian initrd script for the cryptsetup package 2:1.7.3-2 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to gain shell access via many log in attempts with an invalid password.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetup_initrd_shell.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/Lucas-Developer/cryptsetup
- https://github.com/Zidmann/Documentation-LUKS
- https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list
- https://github.com/yfoelling/yair