CVE-2014-8169

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 18, 2015
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 10, 2014

Description

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home directory.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

USN-2579-1vendor-advisory
RHSA-2015:1344vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
openSUSE-SU-2015:0475vendor-advisory
73211vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977

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