Author: gilbert-guest Date: 2010-02-06 23:18:31 +0000 (Sat, 06 Feb 2010) New Revision: 14048 Modified: data/CVE/list Log: consider automake issue unimportant Modified: data/CVE/list ==================================================================--- data/CVE/list 2010-02-06 22:20:23 UTC (rev 14047) +++ data/CVE/list 2010-02-06 23:18:31 UTC (rev 14048) @@ -2814,16 +2814,18 @@ - mysql-dfsg-5.0 <removed> TODO: check CVE-2009-4029 (The (1) dist or (2) distcheck rules in GNU Automake 1.11.1, 1.10.3, ...) - - automake 1:1.11-1 - [lenny] - automake <no-dsa> (Minor issue) - - automake1.9 <unfixed> - [lenny] - automake1.9 <no-dsa> (Minor issue) - - automake1.7 <unfixed> - [lenny] - automake1.7 <no-dsa> (Minor issue) - - automake1.10 <unfixed> - [lenny] - automake1.10 <no-dsa> (Minor issue) - NOTE: it also affects every Makefile.in generated by automake - NOTE: but it doesn''t really affect Debian + - automake 1:1.11-1 (unimportant) + - automake1.9 <unfixed> (unimportant) + - automake1.7 <unfixed> (unimportant) + - automake1.10 <unfixed> (unimportant) + NOTE: for this to be exploited, an attacker needs to have account on the same + NOTE: system as the developer building the package, and that attacker needs to + NOTE: insert malicious data into the vulnerable directory in a small time frame. + NOTE: theoretically it may be possible, but it is highly unlikely, so this is + NOTE: being considered unimportant. + NOTE: for the paranoid, the only proper solution would be to rebuild the entire + NOTE: archive with a patched version of automake and enforce that all + NOTE: developers use a patched automake. NOTE: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-12/msg00012.html CVE-2009-4028 (The vio_verify_callback function in viosslfactories.c in MySQL 5.0.x ...) - mysql-dfsg-5.1 5.1.41-1