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Bugs solved in autofs-5.0.2-20

• 409701

Changelog for autofs-5.0.2-20

* Thu Dec 13 2007 Ian Kent <ikent-at-nospam-redhat.com> - 5.0.2-20
- Bug 409701: CVE-2007-5964 Privilege Escalation (from local system) through /net autofs mount configuration bug
- use mount option "nosuid" for "-hosts" map unless "suid" is explicily specified.

* Tue Nov 20 2007 Ian Kent <ikent-at-nospam-redhat.com> - 5.0.2-17
- fix schema selection in LDAP schema discovery.
- check for "*" when looking up wildcard in LDAP.
- fix couple of edge case parse fails of timeout option.
- add SEARCH_BASE configuration option.
- add random selection as a master map entry option.
- re-read config on HUP signal.
- add LDAP_URI, LDAP_TIMEOUT and LDAP_NETWORK_TIMEOUT configuration options.
- fix deadlock in submount mount module.
- fix lack of ferror() checking when reading files.
- fix typo in autofs(5) man page.
- fix map entry expansion when undefined macro is present.
- remove unused export validation code.
- add dynamic logging (adapted from v4 patch from Jeff Moyer).
- fix recursive loopback mounts (Matthias Koenig).
- add map re-load to verbose logging.
- fix handling of LDAP base dns with spaces.
- handle MTAB_NOTUPDATED status return from mount.
- when default master map, auto.master, is used also check for auto_master.
- update negative mount timeout handling.
- fix large group handling (Ryan Thomas).
- fix for dynamic logging breaking non-sasl build (Guillaume Rousse).
- eliminate NULL proc ping for singleton host or local mounts.

These changelogs are the differences between the package on the original Fedora installation media, and the Fedora Unity Re-Spin installation media