Medium: autofs

Issue Overview:

It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected Packages:

autofs

Issue Correction:
Run yum update autofs to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    autofs-5.0.7-54.22.amzn1.i686  
    autofs-debuginfo-5.0.7-54.22.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    autofs-5.0.7-54.22.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    autofs-5.0.7-54.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    autofs-debuginfo-5.0.7-54.22.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-8169

Mitre: CVE-2014-8169