Advisories » MGASA-2013-0331

Updated pmake packages fix CVE-2011-1920

Publication date: 20 Nov 2013
Modification date: 20 Nov 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2011-1920

Description

Updated pmake package fixes security vulnerability:

The make include files in NetBSD before 1.6.2, as used in pmake 1.111 and
earlier, allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack
on a /tmp/_depend##### temporary file, related to bsd.lib.mk and bsd.prog.mk
(CVE-2011-1920).
                

References

• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201310-17.xml
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11556
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1920

SRPMS

2/core

• pmake-1.45-10.1.mga2

3/core

• pmake-1.45-11.1.mga3