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Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package autofs5  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-AUTOFS5-629536
  • published18 Mar 2015
  • disclosed18 Mar 2015
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Introduced: 18 Mar 2015

CVE-2014-8169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream autofs5 package and not the autofs5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.