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Status published
Medium
CVE-2012-3386
The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
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
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
automake
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6, 1.10, 1.10.0.3, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.3, 1.11.4, 1.12, 1.12.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 7th, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.