Fedora 8 : autofs-5.0.2-24 (2007-4707)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29767

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Dec 21 2007 Ian Kent <ikent at redhat.com> - 5.0.2-24

- Bug 426400: CVE-2007-6285 autofs default doesn't set nodev in /net [f8]

- use mount option 'nodev' for '-hosts' map unless 'dev' is explicily specified.

- Tue Dec 18 2007 Ian Kent <ikent at redhat.com> - 5.0.2-22

- Bug 397591 SELinux is preventing /sbin/rpc.statd (rpcd_t) 'search' to <Unknown> (sysctl_fs_t).

- prevent fork between fd open and setting of FD_CLOEXEC.

- Thu Dec 13 2007 Ian Kent <ikent at redhat.com> - 5.0.2-20

- Bug 409701: CVE-2007-5964 Privilege Escalation (from local system) through /net autofs mount configuration bug

- use mount option 'nosuid' for '-hosts' map unless 'suid' is explicily specified.

- Tue Nov 20 2007 Ian Kent <ikent at redhat.com> - 5.0.2-17

- fix schema selection in LDAP schema discovery.

- check for '*' when looking up wildcard in LDAP.

- fix couple of edge case parse fails of timeout option.

- add SEARCH_BASE configuration option.

- add random selection as a master map entry option.

- re-read config on HUP signal.

- add LDAP_URI, LDAP_TIMEOUT and LDAP_NETWORK_TIMEOUT configuration options.

- fix deadlock in submount mount module.

- fix lack of ferror() checking when reading files.

- fix typo in autofs(5) man page.

- fix map entry expansion when undefined macro is present.

- remove unused export validation code.

- add dynamic logging (adapted from v4 patch from Jeff Moyer).

- fix recursive loopback mounts (Matthias Koenig).

- add map re-load to verbose logging.

- fix handling of LDAP base dns with spaces.

- handle MTAB_NOTUPDATED status return from mount.

- when default master map, auto.master, is used also check for auto_master.

- update negative mount timeout handling.

- fix large group handling (Ryan Thomas).

- fix for dynamic logging breaking non-sasl build (Guillaume Rousse).

- eliminate NULL proc ping for singleton host or local mounts.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected autofs and / or autofs-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4b431d1d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29767

File Name: fedora_2007-4707.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/24/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:autofs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:autofs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6285

BID: 26970

CWE: 16

FEDORA: 2007-4707