4.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html