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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201310-15">
  <title>GNU Automake: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GNU Automake, allowing
    local arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running
    an Automake-based build.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">automake</product>
  <announced>October 25, 2013</announced>
  <revised>October 25, 2013: 1</revised>
  <bug>295357</bug>
  <bug>426336</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/automake" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.11.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.11.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files
      compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Automake. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of
      the user running an Automake-based build.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Automake users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-devel/automake-1.11.6"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4029">CVE-2009-4029</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3386">CVE-2012-3386</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:36 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:54:51 +0000">
    phajdan.jr
  </metadata>
</glsa>