RHBA-2010:0265 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated autofs package that fixes numerous bugs is now available.

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 updated autofs package contains multiple bug fixes and space precludes
documenting these changes in this advisory.

For details concerning every one of these changes, see the autofs chapter
in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Technical Notes:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Technica l_Notes/autofs.html

All autofs users should install this updated package, which addresses these
issues.

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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 506034 - Line to include non existent map in auto.master will result in subsequent mounts being ignored.
• BZ - 514412 - RHEL 5.5 RFE - autofs add configuration option to increase max open files and max stack size
• BZ - 517349 - NFSv4 / Kerberos / AutoFS (mount) Try mounting a down server takes TOO MUCH time to fail (timeout).
• BZ - 533323 - Wrong usage of ghn_errno and strerror_r
• BZ - 534012 - typo in /etc/rc.d.init.d/autofs
• BZ - 537403 - Autofs mount fails if it relies on another autofs managed resource
• BZ - 537793 - Double bind in autofs LDAP code breaks interop with some LDAP servers
• BZ - 539747 - connect_nb() uses a wrong timeout
• BZ - 541144 - 'service autofs stop' does not stop
• BZ - 548476 - automount cannot use rpc ping to select from list of replicated servers

CVEs

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References

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