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ubuntu-cve-2014-8169

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-03-18 00:00

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8169	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2579-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8169	REPORT

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            "binary_name": "autofs",
            "binary_version": "5.0.7-3ubuntu3.1"
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          {
            "binary_name": "autofs-hesiod",
            "binary_version": "5.0.7-3ubuntu3.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "autofs-ldap",
            "binary_version": "5.0.7-3ubuntu3.1"
          },
          {
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      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "autofs",
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      ],
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  "aliases": [],
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8169",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:38Z",
  "published": "2015-03-18T00:00:00Z",
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  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:05Z"
}

CVE-2014-8169 (GCVE-0-2014-8169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-18 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

7 references

URL	Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-03-02 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2014-8169 (GCVE-0-2014-8169)

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