Security Advisory SA28052 - Red Hat autofs "/net" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA28052

Red Hat autofs "/net" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA28052

Release Date

2007-12-12

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-5964 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

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.
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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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