autofs default doesn't set nodev in /net

The default configuration for autofs 5 autofs5 in some Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 and 5, does not specify the nodev mount option for the -hosts map, which allows local users to access "important devices" by operating a remote NFS server and creating special devic...

CVE-2002-1826

grsecurity 1.9.4 for Linux kernel 2.4.18 allows local users to bypass read-only permissions by using mmap to directly map /dev/mem or /dev/kmem to kernel memory...

CVE-2002-1826: Undefined Security Weakness

grsecurity 1.9.4 for Linux kernel 2.4.18 allows local users to bypass read-only permissions by using mmap to directly map /dev/mem or /dev/kmem to kernel memory...

CVE-2002-1245: Undefined Security Weakness

Maped in LuxMan 0.41 uses the user-provided search path to find and execute the gzip program, which allows local users to modify /dev/mem and gain privileges via a modified PATH environment variable that points to a Trojan horse gzip program...

CVE-2002-1826

grsecurity 1.9.4 for Linux kernel 2.4.18 allows local users to bypass read-only permissions by using mmap to directly map /dev/mem or /dev/kmem to kernel memory...

CVE-1999-1406: Undefined Security Weakness

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with ORDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service crash by redirecting fd 1 stdout to the kernel...

CVE-2000-1145: Undefined Security Weakness

Recourse ManTrap 1.6 allows attackers who have gained root access to use utilities such as crash or fsdb to read /dev/mem and raw disk devices to identify ManTrap processes or modify arbitrary data files...