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autofs: denial of service

Package(s):autofs CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2697
Created:January 14, 2013 Updated:January 17, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

A bug fix included in RHBA-2012:0264 introduced a denial of service flaw in autofs. When using autofs with LDAP, a local user could use this flaw to crash autofs, preventing future mount requests from being processed until the autofs service was restarted.

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2013-0132 2013-01-12
Scientific Linux SL-auto-20130116 2013-01-16
CentOS CESA-2013:0132 2013-01-09
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