CVE-2012-3386

Description

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3