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CVE-2012-3386

Public on 2012-08-07
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description

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".

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 automake19 2014-09-17 21:41 ALAS-2014-401

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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