It was found that the distcheck rule in Automake-generated Makefiles made a directory world-writable when preparing source archives. If a malicious, local user could access this directory, they could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running "make distcheck".
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | automake19 | 2014-09-17 21:41 | ALAS-2014-401 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |