CVE-2012-2697 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published 24 Feb 2013 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local users can cause autofs crashes and delayed mounts by exploiting an unspecified vulnerability in LDAP-based automount maps.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2012-2697?

CVE-2012-2697 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 24 Feb 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2697?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (4)

`autofs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client	All versions	`1:5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5`
`autofs-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client	All versions	`1:5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5`
`autofs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server	All versions	`1:5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5`
`autofs-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server	All versions	`1:5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5`

Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2697?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-2697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2697, GHSA-8cw5-3jc7-m8ff, RHSA-2013:0132.