CVE-2012-3386 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103 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