Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for autofs. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for autofs
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28097
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28097/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 7
http://secunia.com/product/15552/
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for autofs. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
For more information:
SA28052
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
-- Fedora 7 --
846e745179918fe10db20bbe84a0737610b4eaeb autofs-5.0.1-29.ppc64.rpm
ed92aa477e68d90933f0b7134f63cfc04647b66a
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-29.ppc64.rpm
71c6b96cd13f63f8b4e9f1924fc8fe81b1fd5c20
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-29.i386.rpm
642387715c661c25a91f387156c8e46dd4a7f710 autofs-5.0.1-29.i386.rpm
92b5139b1087ef68087e11707b2e677a59a22877 autofs-5.0.1-29.x86_64.rpm
52c57dd7927319578fb37c90c33aa94b0577651a
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-29.x86_64.rpm
ff9493bd5fb907a423065c88f2562345125a8186 autofs-5.0.1-29.ppc.rpm
a196cd329070363e723d1b179a5868a95139892c
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-29.ppc.rpm
4783b086be6fdd7b4d2feb879cc4b850c1323814 autofs-5.0.1-29.src.rpm
-- Fedora 8 --
4fc0785a999c423a2a11bc672daf94a8a50e151d autofs-5.0.2-20.ppc64.rpm
2d612eb0a7b23a40d4b59ebd940ddfb317ff1244
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-20.ppc64.rpm
45bc2344d12e15a79754cb3466380db170025fc8 autofs-5.0.2-20.i386.rpm
031e338c0e88eeb8209a5d08d2800c5145bdda16
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-20.i386.rpm
9eace023fd6c99c5cd72977fd48df099d86d7922
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-20.x86_64.rpm
f52982ba06c755f070d054f75399ec5a329d97bd autofs-5.0.2-20.x86_64.rpm
e4c9717cad79ba9fe16a58ae461e50eb9e691747
autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-20.ppc.rpm
f5ac7bc352deedca0e31b91efb41186631eff879 autofs-5.0.2-20.ppc.rpm
eabd008808d8015a01e3a76d95f3aef5c47783c9 autofs-5.0.2-20.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00474.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00549.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA28052:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28052/
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