| Name | CVE-2014-2905 |
| Description | fish (aka fish-shell) 1.16.0 before 2.1.1 does not properly check the credentials, which allows local users to gain privileges via the universal variable socket, related to /tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 746259 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| fish (PTS) | buster | 3.0.2-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.1.2-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.6.0-3.1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.7.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| fish | source | (unstable) | 2.1.1-1 | low | | 746259 |
Notes
[squeeze] - fish <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - fish <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1436