RHEL 5 : automake (RHSA-2014:1243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77696

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated automake package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.

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'. (CVE-2012-3386)

Red Hat would like to thank Jim Meyering for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Stefano Lattarini as the original reporter.

All automake users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected automake package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3386

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1243

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77696

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1243.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automake, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3386

BID: 54418

RHSA: 2014:1243