CVE-2014-8169

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.

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3