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openSUSE Security Update : autofs (openSUSE-2015-220)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81764

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The automount service autofs was updated to prevent a potential privilege escalation via interpreter load path for program-based automount maps. (bsc#917977 CVE-2014-8169)

Solution

Update the affected autofs packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917977

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81764

File Name: openSUSE-2015-220.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:autofs-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:autofs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:autofs, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8169