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Entered | Topic |
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2012-08-06 | automake -- Insecure 'distcheck' recipe granted world-writable distdir |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2012-3386 |
Phase | Assigned(20120614) |
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.
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