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...

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."...

DEBIAN-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."...