Skip to navigation Skip to main content

Utilities

  • Subscriptions
  • Downloads
  • Red Hat Console
  • Get Support
Red Hat Customer Portal
  • Subscriptions
  • Downloads
  • Red Hat Console
  • Get Support
  • Products

    Top Products

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Red Hat OpenShift
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    All Products

    Downloads and Containers

    • Downloads
    • Packages
    • Containers

    Top Resources

    • Documentation
    • Product Life Cycles
    • Product Compliance
    • Errata
  • Knowledge

    Red Hat Knowledge Center

    • Knowledgebase Solutions
    • Knowledgebase Articles
    • Customer Portal Labs
    • Errata

    Top Product Docs

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Red Hat OpenShift
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    All Product Docs

    Training and Certification

    • About
    • Course Index
    • Certification Index
    • Skill Assessment
  • Security

    Red Hat Product Security Center

    • Security Updates
    • Security Advisories
    • Red Hat CVE Database
    • Errata

    References

    • Security Bulletins
    • Security Measurement
    • Severity Ratings
    • Security Data

    Top Resources

    • Security Labs
    • Backporting Policies
    • Security Blog
  • Support

    Red Hat Support

    • Support Cases
    • Troubleshoot
    • Get Support
    • Contact Red Hat Support

    Red Hat Community Support

    • Customer Portal Community
    • Community Discussions
    • Red Hat Accelerator Program

    Top Resources

    • Product Life Cycles
    • Customer Portal Labs
    • Red Hat JBoss Supported Configurations
    • Red Hat Insights
Or troubleshoot an issue.

Select Your Language

  • English
  • Français
  • 한국어
  • 日本語
  • 中文 (中国)

Infrastructure and Management

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Satellite
  • Red Hat Subscription Management
  • Red Hat Insights
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Cloud Computing

  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform
  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Quay
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Storage

  • Red Hat Gluster Storage
  • Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation

Runtimes

  • Red Hat Runtimes
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  • Red Hat Data Grid
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server
  • Red Hat build of Keycloak
  • Red Hat support for Spring Boot
  • Red Hat build of Node.js
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus

Integration and Automation

  • Red Hat Application Foundations
  • Red Hat Fuse
  • Red Hat AMQ
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management
All Products
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0264 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0264 - Bug Fix Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

autofs bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated autofs package that fixes several bugs and adds one enhancement is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon. The automount
daemon automatically mounts and unmounts file systems.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, autofs submounts incorrectly handled shutdown synchronization and

lock restrictions. As a consequence, automount could be unresponsive when
submounts expired. With this update, the submount shuts down only after the
states ST_SHUTDOWN, ST_SHUTDOWN_PENDING, and ST_SHUTDOWN_FORCE, or when the
state changes to ST_READY. (BZ#655685)

  • Previously, automount did not correctly parse unmatched brackets in

map entry server names. As a consequence, the sanity check for host
names in these map entries could fail. Now, unmatched brackets in server
names result in a syntax error being reported and the check no longer
fails. (BZ#692814)

  • Previously, the automount logged confusing error messages when syntax errors

occurred in map entry locations. This update modifies these messages and
displays more informative messages were possible. (BZ#700142)

  • Previously, LDAP servers did not correctly return an opaque cookie to check

for additional results when getting paged results from the server on 64-bit
PowerPC and IBM System z platforms due to slightly different criteria for
deciding if there are more results. As a consequence, the autofs internal
functions did not detect when paged result sets were not supported. This update
modifies the underlying source code so that autofs now correctly detects whether
the paged results are updated. (BZ#700896)

  • Previously, an incorrect check for the presence of additional addresses for a

host led to the IP address being used for mounting instead of the host name. As
a consequence the IP address was displayed instead of the host name when listing
system mounts, even when the host had only a single address. This update
modifies the check so that the IP address is used only if a host has multiple IP
addresses. (BZ#725536)

  • Previously, incorrect identification of the map entry source caused a failure

during the key lookup. As a consequence, map lookups for an automount, where a a
key was present in a file map and the same key was also found in an included
map, failed if the file map entry was removed and a lookup was performed before
a re-load is issued. This update modifies the key lookup code and the lookup
works now as expected. (BZ#731514, BZ#732333)

  • Previously, automount could become unresponsive when reloading a master map

that included a combination of direct and indirect maps due to incorrect lock
ordering. This update corrects the logic used to determine if the lookup needs
to continue into included maps. (BZ#732332)

  • Previously, map entries were always mounted using proximity and response time

instead of bind mounting when adding a random selection of a host if the mount
was local. This update modifies this behavior and also adds the "nobind" option
to allow the previous behavior to be forced if needed. (BZ#734675)

  • Previously, the map key lookup mechanism did not find keys in an included

multi-mount map entry. This update modifies the lookup mechanism so that keys in
multi-mount map entries are now found correctly. (BZ#747020)

  • Previously, the stack allocation function of the temporary work space was used

within a loop in the function lookup_ghost(). As a consequence, a stack overflow
could occur and automount then failed with a segmentation fault. This update
corrects the allocation usage and the stack overflows no longer occurs.
(BZ#759221)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

  • With this update,the "--dumpmaps" option to dump maps has been added to dump

in autofs. (BZ#732334)

All users of autofs are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs and adds this enhancement.

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/kb/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

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
x86_64
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7782407a4ed09f93978f4ac6b5756a123df59b4694ddbcd94248a6ed3c5195e0
ia64
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 9b2614703556875e8452fe15268c56a2bc439f3e9c117da0068dbcfe6d0df4a9
i386
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b4951c1732f1bf8f5b337d5ab1c7ba9032dbcaab865b6aff665455b9358d9ff7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
x86_64
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7782407a4ed09f93978f4ac6b5756a123df59b4694ddbcd94248a6ed3c5195e0
i386
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b4951c1732f1bf8f5b337d5ab1c7ba9032dbcaab865b6aff665455b9358d9ff7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
x86_64
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7782407a4ed09f93978f4ac6b5756a123df59b4694ddbcd94248a6ed3c5195e0
i386
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b4951c1732f1bf8f5b337d5ab1c7ba9032dbcaab865b6aff665455b9358d9ff7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
s390x
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.s390x.rpm SHA-256: fa490971f3dc1f80b1e76fd26f903a06f7af9e5d6172cf7b88ba0ca5aec71685

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
ppc
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.ppc.rpm SHA-256: dc80bb8ad8c847976436331cab34c656022cc0d4f44244feff4ba6348cf9723b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: 3cf3639c065a7c4d99da2dafb6412dca65391b21a713027094b71095ddc78b77
x86_64
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7782407a4ed09f93978f4ac6b5756a123df59b4694ddbcd94248a6ed3c5195e0
i386
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.163.el5.i386.rpm SHA-256: b4951c1732f1bf8f5b337d5ab1c7ba9032dbcaab865b6aff665455b9358d9ff7

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

Red Hat LinkedIn YouTube Facebook X, formerly Twitter

Quick Links

  • Downloads
  • Subscriptions
  • Support Cases
  • Customer Service
  • Product Documentation

Help

  • Contact Us
  • Customer Portal FAQ
  • Log-in Assistance

Site Info

  • Trust Red Hat
  • Browser Support Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Awards and Recognition
  • Colophon

Related Sites

  • redhat.com
  • developers.redhat.com
  • connect.redhat.com
  • cloud.redhat.com

Red Hat legal and privacy links

  • About Red Hat
  • Jobs
  • Events
  • Locations
  • Contact Red Hat
  • Red Hat Blog
  • Inclusion at Red Hat
  • Cool Stuff Store
  • Red Hat Summit
© 2025 Red Hat

Red Hat legal and privacy links

  • Privacy statement
  • Terms of use
  • All policies and guidelines
  • Digital accessibility