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Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-3386

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".

Source

ALAS-2014-401

Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-401
Advisory Release Date: 2014-09-17 21:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 12:01 Pacific

Severity: Low

References: CVE-2012-3386

Issue Overview:

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".

Affected Packages:

automake19

Issue Correction:
Run yum update automake19 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:
    automake19-1.9.6-3.12.amzn1.noarch

src:
    automake19-1.9.6-3.12.amzn1.src

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