Race Condition Vulnerability in GNU Automake's make distcheck Rule

CVE-2012-3386 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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