National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4029
Original release date:12/20/2009
Last revised:08/08/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The (1) dist or (2) distcheck rules in GNU Automake 1.11.1, 1.10.3, and release branches branch-1-4 through branch-1-9, when producing a distribution tarball for a package that uses Automake, assign insecure permissions (777) to directories in the build tree, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to modify the contents of package files, introduce Trojan horse programs, or conduct other attacks before the build is complete.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (03/31/2010)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following
bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4029
This issue was addressed in the automake, automake14, automake15, automake16 and automake17 packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0321.html
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, theres no plan to address this flaw in automake packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [automake] 20091208 CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3579
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20101027 rPSA-2010-0071-1 automake
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:203
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0071
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 1021784
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6077
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11717
External Source: MLIST
Name: [automake] 20091208 Re: CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'
External Source: MLIST
Name: [automake] 20091208 GNU Automake 1.10.3 released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [automake] 20091208 GNU Automake 1.11.1 released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [automake-patches] 20091128 [PATCH] do not put world-writable directories in distribution tarballs
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11717
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
