usn-2473-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-01-14 23:27
Modified
2026-02-10 04:40
Summary
coreutils vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that the distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a directory tree under /tmp. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-4135)

Bertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly handled user-supplied input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code. (CVE-2014-9471)

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                }
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
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  "details": "It was discovered that the distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU\ncoreutils allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack\non a directory tree under /tmp. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2009-4135)\n\nBertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly\nhandled user-supplied input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause\na denial of service or potentially execute code. (CVE-2014-9471)\n",
  "id": "USN-2473-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:51Z",
  "published": "2015-01-14T23:27:23Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2473-1"
    },
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    },
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