Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for automake19 (ALAS-2014-401) (CVE-2012-3386)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/07/2012
07/25/2018
09/26/2014
07/04/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-automake19
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