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>> Mandriva Security Update Fixes Autofs Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Title : Mandriva Security Update Fixes Autofs Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0123
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5964 - CVE-2007-6285
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-14


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. These issues are caused by errors in Autofs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4208 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-4287

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.0
Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
3390bf55832dffd626f5f8ce0e8ad8ea 2007.0/i586/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.1.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
11c33cfb8d77ff2639c70e32ac04ed73 2007.0/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.1.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
3667ed52652d4d622e3f6d5308ef8699 2007.0/x86_64/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.1.2mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
11c33cfb8d77ff2639c70e32ac04ed73 2007.0/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.1.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
c326dd1684ec0da4619c492d59052116 2007.1/i586/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
e83f2a80aab1b6a2dcd3bd1cd7f2d3b6 2007.1/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
17ec256f10b709523ac8551b87a86004 2007.1/x86_64/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
e83f2a80aab1b6a2dcd3bd1cd7f2d3b6 2007.1/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
ad1b96d23f0fcaaed1e6d3cff10943fa 2008.0/i586/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
7e4772f6ef649bfb9c426af73267f3ad 2008.0/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
86a63d2ff73733036da50f643e994359 2008.0/x86_64/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
7e4772f6ef649bfb9c426af73267f3ad 2008.0/SRPMS/autofs-5.0.2-8.4mdv2008.0.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0123
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-01/msg00018.php
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-01/msg00021.php

ChangeLog

2008-01-14 : Initial release

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