CVE-2014-8169 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977