CVE-2007-5964

EPSS 0.04%

Published: 12/13/2007Modified: 5/10/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5964

Description

The default configuration of autofs 5 in some Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, omits the nosuid option for the hosts (/net filesystem) map, which allows local users to gain privileges via a setuid program on a remote NFS server.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/autofsfrom 0, < 3.1.4-8

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5964