CVE-2014-1421

Publication date 18 November 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

mountall 1.54, as used in Ubuntu 14.10, does not properly handle the umask when using the mount utility, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mountall	14.10 utopic	Fixed 2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

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Notes

mdeslaur

This is only an issue when combined with the mount utility in utopic and newer.

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2411-1
mountall vulnerability
18 November 2014

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1421