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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html ↗
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html ↗
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html ↗
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html ↗
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html ↗