Red Hat autofs "/net" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Wednesday, December 12 2007 @ 03:51 PM EST

Contributed by: sde

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.

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