CVE-2014-1421

CVE-2014-1421 affects mountall 1.54 as used in Ubuntu 14.10, where the umask handling in the mount utility can cause filesystems to be mounted with incorrect permissions. The issue is a local-privilege concern tied to mount behavior, with the Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2411-1 documenting that upd...

CVE-2014-1421

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...