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Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00017.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00020.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00021.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835095","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835096","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726565","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://calamares.io/calamares-3.2.11-is-out/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://calamares.io/calamares-cve-2019/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1190","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1191","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q57BOTBA2J5U4GVKUP7N2PD5H7B3BVUU/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2ZDQRGBGRVRW5LPJWKUNS3M66LZ3KYC/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2015/01/25/linux-mint-encryption/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00017.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00020.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00021.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835095","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835096","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726565","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://calamares.io/calamares-3.2.11-is-out/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://calamares.io/calamares-cve-2019/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1190","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1191","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q57BOTBA2J5U4GVKUP7N2PD5H7B3BVUU/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2ZDQRGBGRVRW5LPJWKUNS3M66LZ3KYC/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2015/01/25/linux-mint-encryption/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13178","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}