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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Autofs Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Autofs Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4297
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6285
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-12-24


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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by malicious users to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in Autofs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4287

Affected Products

Fedora 7
Fedora 8

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

128a3cf695f9c6662f9e474f833af528208182b7 autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-31.ppc64.rpm
fc3114f874372d841b08ccee8287f631253454a8 autofs-5.0.1-31.ppc64.rpm
fa139fe88f913d4baaeea0906362776714098254 autofs-5.0.1-31.i386.rpm
58433c1470b32faf39b9c8dd3419907b2f1bc164 autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-31.i386.rpm
8e5583a88125b5cc1de040ec7a37b57a5f014ae3 autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-31.x86_64.rpm
f4693139aadd71c37002548da618bc6096936bca autofs-5.0.1-31.x86_64.rpm
fd72d964299f2476244c46d7217016a4a477ae0c autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-31.ppc.rpm
86f8116cd5906ead13d350e5455cbfb1a8eb46dd autofs-5.0.1-31.ppc.rpm
a47e9f37124f13bc7b720df5f6118a69e78ee329 autofs-5.0.1-31.src.rpm

b08e6a8236afd2250c8542612de29016f5d55efa autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-24.ppc64.rpm
138d99ea5884b4128560dc1219d35045275bf34c autofs-5.0.2-24.ppc64.rpm
ef3527ea1b8230a764bddb76225eb2321ca60833 autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-24.i386.rpm
297cb54d73055ad2bd2942997cde4d63dbe3a40a autofs-5.0.2-24.i386.rpm
ff889edb84ef0e04635ced4d3bb6068827c49f78 autofs-5.0.2-24.x86_64.rpm
a677c2dfac98532125583771ea565ba6f18f263d autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-24.x86_64.rpm
359d08650474f1f97eba5421e06aff2a48e447f8 autofs-debuginfo-5.0.2-24.ppc.rpm
f684647d7866a64cf655a582d665d6cefe7506f0 autofs-5.0.2-24.ppc.rpm
32b82ceae98e35860ec74c84f6d5ffac2282f191 autofs-5.0.2-24.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4297
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00732.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00726.html

ChangeLog

2007-12-24 : Initial release

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