CVE-2014-8169

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Red

First reported 9 years ago

2015-03-18 16:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0

6.0

References

openSUSE-SU-2015:0475

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2015:1344

Third Party Advisory

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

73211

USN-2579-1

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

Issue Tracking

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

Issue Tracking

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