CVE-2007-5964 Information

Description

The default configuration of autofs 5 in some Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 omits the nosuid option for the hosts (/net filesystem) map which allows local users to gain privileges via a setuid program on a remote NFS server.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/40441 http://secunia.com/advisories/28052 http://secunia.com/advisories/28097 http://secunia.com/advisories/28456 http://securitytracker.com/id?1019087 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:009 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1128.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1129.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26841 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410031 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10158 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00474.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00549.html