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CVE-2014-8169

Publication date 18 March 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
autofs 15.04 vivid
Fixed 5.0.8-1ubuntu3
14.10 utopic
Fixed 5.0.8-1ubuntu1.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
autofs5 15.04 vivid Not in release
14.10 utopic Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected

Notes

tyhicks

See Debian bug for patches backported to 5.0.8

mdeslaur

introduced by the following commit in 5.0.8: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/storage/autofs/autofs.git/commit/?id=93eff4558659f509edc46562208ae3c452949e77

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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