CVE-2012-3386 (GCVE-0-2012-3386)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-07 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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