CVE-1999-0210

Summary

CVE-1999-0210 is a vulnerability affecting the Automount daemon (automountd). This issue grants local or remote users elevated privileges by exploiting shell metacharacters in the automountd configuration files. An attacker can manipulate these files to execute arbitrary commands, potentially leading to a complete system takeover. The vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running the affected version of automountd and requires immediate patching to mitigate the threat.

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