[Bug 1023960] Re: (CVE-2012-3386) CVE-2012-3386 automake: locally exploitable "make distcheck" bug

[Jamie Strandboge]

** Changed in: automake (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: automake (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  (CVE-2012-3386) CVE-2012-3386 automake: locally exploitable "make
  distcheck" bug

Status in “automake” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “automake” package in Debian:
  Unknown
Status in “automake” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Stefano Lattarini discovered a vulnerability in automake
  that is much like the one that prompted CVE-2009-4029:
  automake's distcheck rule makes distdir briefly world-writable.
  Stefano also wrote the patch below.

  This bug is slightly more limited because it affects only the
  "make distcheck" rule, while CVE-2009-4029 affected all dist* rules.

  The point is that with these temporarily-relaxed directory permissions,
  an attacker can cause the person running "make distcheck" in an attacker-
  accessible (o+rx, or possibly only o+x) directory to run arbitrary code.

  Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
   everything prior to v1.12.1-214-g15b8b62

  How reproducible:
  The directory is world-writable only briefly, but the flaw is
  exploitable.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/8572

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