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Mandriva: 2012:103: automake Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in automake: A race condition in automake (lib/am/distdir.am) could allow a local attacker to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running make distcheck (CVE-2012-3386). [More...]
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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2012:103
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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 Package : automake
 Date    : July 12, 2012
 Affected: 2011., Enterprise Server 5.0
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 Problem Description:

 A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in automake:
 
 A race condition in automake (lib/am/distdir.am) could allow a local
 attacker to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
 make distcheck (CVE-2012-3386).
 
 The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3386
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Linux 2011:
 6b76d40c708ecb9a337f0bbe83b8e5a5  2011/i586/automake-1.11.1-3.1-mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm
 def6ff08782c702e53917c012adaa2f8  2011/i586/automake1.7-1.7.9-12.1-mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm 
 0459989e2c0b859bf365d7441bb4fc65  2011/SRPMS/automake-1.11.1-3.1.src.rpm
 99cdc6e3e6844a0cb8c7e94f9ba9b96d  2011/SRPMS/automake1.7-1.7.9-12.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64:
 fe532a9026a2320e212f58d43123a4f8  2011/x86_64/automake-1.11.1-3.1-mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm
 26765efc33f4ed98e0b241f121fda2b0  2011/x86_64/automake1.7-1.7.9-12.1-mdv2011.0.noarch.rpm 
 0459989e2c0b859bf365d7441bb4fc65  2011/SRPMS/automake-1.11.1-3.1.src.rpm
 99cdc6e3e6844a0cb8c7e94f9ba9b96d  2011/SRPMS/automake1.7-1.7.9-12.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
 649c426592183a5b4714a97132d365d4  mes5/i586/automake-1.10.1-2.2mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
 f6bc74d25e7119604355a0a037afdc81  mes5/i586/automake1.7-1.7.9-7.2mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm 
 50013b111e91603c4894c7edc2bb2291  mes5/SRPMS/automake-1.10.1-2.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
 394ab888b739e17d4d2f7d63e37b9cb9  mes5/SRPMS/automake1.7-1.7.9-7.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm

 Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
 35ad073c069d685cf90a064b67a3e106  mes5/x86_64/automake-1.10.1-2.2mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm
 c9b798b4a54073a8b11ef7aabafff7bd  mes5/x86_64/automake1.7-1.7.9-7.2mdvmes5.2.noarch.rpm 
 50013b111e91603c4894c7edc2bb2291  mes5/SRPMS/automake-1.10.1-2.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
 394ab888b739e17d4d2f7d63e37b9cb9  mes5/SRPMS/automake1.7-1.7.9-7.2mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
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