CVE-2012-2697

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in autofs, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, allows local users to cause a denial of service (autofs crash and delayed mounts) or prevent "mount expiration" via unspecified vectors related to "using an LDAP-based automount map."

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0132.html
http://www.osvdb.org/89878
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831772
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0132.html
http://www.osvdb.org/89878
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831772

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