EUVD-2007-6253

Malware in sbrugna...

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...

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...