CVE-2012-3386

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    CVE-2012-3386

    Published: 7 Aug 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76, 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://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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High