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title: "CVE-2014-3925\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2014-3925

Publication date 1 June 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
5 produces an archive with an fstab file potentially containing cleartext
passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect
included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive
information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3925?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| sosreport | 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Fixed 3.1-1ubuntu2.2 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3925?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [tyhicks](https://launchpad.net/~tyhicks)

Fixed upstream in the 3.2 release

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| sosreport | * Upstream:   [7b46d34](https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/7b46d34654735d925bcb2a3e4b27b65dce994519) |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3925)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3925)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-3925)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3925)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-2845-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-2845-1)
+ SoS vulnerabilities
+ 18 December 2015

### Other references

* <http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3>
* <http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3925>
