Issued:

2012-04-20

Updated:

2012-04-20

RHBA-2012:0506 - autofs bug fix update

Synopsis

autofs bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated autofs packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon. The automount daemon automatically mounts file systems when you use them, and unmounts them when they are not busy.

This update fixes the following bug:

• A function to check validity of a mount location was meant to check only for a small subset of map location errors. A recent improvement modification in error reporting inverted a logic test in this validating function. Consequently, the scope of the test was widened, which caused automount to report false positive failures. With this update, the faulty logic test has been corrected and false positive failures no longer occur. (BZ#810126)

All users of autofs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.ia64.rpm
• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.s390x.rpm
• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.ppc.rpm
• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.i386.rpm
• autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.164.el5_8.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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