RHBA-2018:0977 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for autofs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

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

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of autofs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1466256 - autofs: unable to mount nfs share after reboot
• BZ - 1476850 - Man page: Make auto.master 's summary findable via 'man -k autofs'
• BZ - 1486035 - autofs map entry options field does not accept dot character
• BZ - 1489247 - autofs: config mount_nfs_default_protocol doesn't work
• BZ - 1489648 - autofs missing dependency with libsss_autofs cause missing file messages during boot
• BZ - 1497846 - autofs option parsing for maps with fstype=autofs no longer works
• BZ - 1499287 - Autofs processes hung while waiting for the release of an entry master_lock that is held by another thread waiting on a bind mount
• BZ - 1504145 - Automount cannot access host shares after a reboot
• BZ - 1509043 - [RFE] "automount / amd: file system type program is not yet implemented" (Implement AMD program maps
• BZ - 1509088 - autofs hangs due to race condition in do_spawn
• BZ - 1527815 - automount[1979]: segfault at 55f5101d30e8 ip 000055f50f177668 sp 00007ffffa85fdd0 error 4 in automount[55f50f16d000+48000]

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html