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TITLE:
Red Hat autofs "/net" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28052

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28052/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a missing "nosuid" option in the
default autofs configuration file for "/net" mounts. This can be
exploited by a malicious, local user to execute arbitrary suid
binaries via a malicious NFS server.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Josh Lange.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410031
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1128.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1129.html

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