autofs security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1344 Updated autofs packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

autofs: priv escalation via interpreter load path for program based automount maps

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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : autofs (SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1)

autofs was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2014-8169: Prevent potential privilege escalation via interpreter load path for program-based automount maps bnc917977. The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. Note that...

automount privilege escalation

Insufficient local variables filtering...

Automount Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

automount is a tool for LINUX to automount external storage devices. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in automount version 5.0.8, which could be exploited by a local attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in a user's home directory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

Directory traversal

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

CVE-2014-8169

CVE-2014-8169 affects the autofs (automounter) component: when a program map uses interpreted languages, it can cause the interpreter to inherit the calling user’s USER and HOME environment variables, enabling local privilege escalation. The issue has been addressed across multiple distributions:...

CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8169

automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of the values for the user used to run the mapped program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the user home...

VDDK error: 13 - Troubleshooting

Challenge Backup/Replication jobs fail with: VDDK error: 13.You do not have access rights to this file Solution Below is a list of possible solutions to this issue sorted by what transport mode was being used when this error occurred. Note: There are many causes for VDDK 13; this list is not...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: systemd-204-15.fc19

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Oracle Linux 4 : autofs5 (ELSA-2007-1177)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:1177 : Updated autofs5 technology preview packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The autofs utility controls the...

Oracle Linux 5 : autofs (ELSA-2013-0132)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0132 advisory. 5.0.1-0.rc2.177.0.1.el5 - apply fix from NetApp to use tcp before udp http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07910.html Bert Barbe orabug 682789...

CentOS 4 : autofs5 (CESA-2007:1129)

Updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Technology Preview autofs5 packages are now available to fix a security flaw. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon, which...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2697

Unspecified vulnerability in autofs, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5, allows local users to cause a denial of service autofs crash and delayed mounts or prevent "mount expiration" via unspecified vectors related to "using an LDAP-based automount map."...