--- automake-1.11.2/NEWS.orig 2012-07-10 05:55:08.774803866 -0700

+++ automake-1.11.2/NEWS 2012-07-10 05:55:40.618794747 -0700

@@ -90,6 +90,15 @@

- The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the

conditional is no longer valid for the condition.

+* SECURITY VULNERABILITIES!

+

+ - The recipe of the 'distcheck' no longer grants anymore temporary

+ world-wide write permissions on the extracted distdir. Even if such

+ rights were only granted for a vanishingly small time window, the

+ implied race condition proved to be enough to allow a local attacker

+ to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running "make

+ distcheck". This is CVE-2012-3386.

+

* Long-standing bugs:

- The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other

--- automake-1.11.2/lib/am/distdir.am.orig 2012-07-10 05:57:02.481964158 -0700

+++ automake-1.11.2/lib/am/distdir.am 2012-07-10 05:57:54.509361759 -0700

@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@

## Make the new source tree read-only. Distributions ought to work in

## this case. However, make the top-level directory writable so we

## can make our new subdirs.

- chmod -R a-w $(distdir); chmod a+w $(distdir)

+ chmod -R a-w $(distdir); chmod u+w $(distdir)

mkdir $(distdir)/_build

mkdir $(distdir)/_inst

## Undo the write access.