suse-su-2015:1020-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2015-03-02 14:50
Modified
2015-03-02 14:50
Summary
Security update for autofs

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for autofs
Description of the patch
autofs was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2014-8169: Prevent potential privilege escalation via interpreter load path for program-based automount maps (bnc#917977). These non-security issues were fixed: - Dont pass sloppy option for other than nfs mounts (bnc#901448, bnc#916203) - Fix insserv warning at postinstall (bnc#913376) - Fix autofs.service so that multiple options passed through sysconfig AUTOFS_OPTIONS work correctly (bnc#909472)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-248,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-248
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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