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autofs — security advisory
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.
- Products
- autofs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.0.8-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-8169
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8169
autofs
Fixed versions: 5.0.8-2
autofs
Fixed versions: 5.0.8-2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 413938,
"published_at": "2015-03-18T16:59:00.063+00:00"
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