CVE-2014-8169

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published3/18/2015

Last Modified5/6/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

automount_project:automountopensuse:opensuseredhat:enterprise_linux_desktopredhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_noderedhat:enterprise_linux_serverredhat:enterprise_linux_workstation

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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