Re: CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:13:45PM CET: > For release branches older than branch-1-10, the respective fix has been > applied to the git tree, but there are currently no plans to produce new > official releases for them; contact us if you absolutely need to have > such a rele

CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
GNU Automake 1.11.1 as well as 1.10.3 fix a security-related race condition that affects `make dist' and `make distcheck' for all packages that use Automake. Before the fix, the `distdir' target (which is used by both `dist' and `distcheck') would first populate a directory below the build tree wi

GNU Automake 1.10.3 released

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.10.3. Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile standards, and portable to various make implementations. This is a bugfix release over 1.10.2. All of these bug

GNU Automake 1.11.1 released

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.11.1. Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile standards, and portable to various make implementations. This is a pure bugfix release. It contains fixes for t