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autofs privilege escalation
Published: 13.01.2008
Source: CVE
SecurityVulns ID: 8562
Type: local
Level: 5/10
Description: nosuid and nodev flags are not specified for NFS.

Affected: AUTOFS : autofs 5.0
CVE: CVE-2007-6285 (The default configuration for autofs 5 (autofs5) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 does not specify the nodev mount option for the -hosts map, which allows local users to access "important devices" by operating a remote NFS server and creating special device files on that server.)
CVE-2007-5964

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