The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3386
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0526
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1243
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3386
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838286