Re: "make distcheck" is exploitable: get a fixed automake

2012-07-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 03:34:53PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > It's fixed in the latest, automake-12.2 I think you mean 1.12.2 :-) > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2012-3386 > http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7294 However I don't think I see any fixed Fedora builds (1.12

"make distcheck" is exploitable: get a fixed automake

2012-07-13 Thread Jim Meyering
If you run "make distcheck" (the rule generated by automake), be sure that it is safe. Until a few days ago, running that rule in a directory readable by others would put you at risk from a local attacker. It can be exploited reliably. It's fixed in the latest, automake-12.2 http://bugzilla.