USN-2482-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9447)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-01-23 01:19 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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Summary
elfutils vulnerability
Details

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process extracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory.

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        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
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            "binary_name": "elfutils",
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain\nfilesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw\nto perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process\nextracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory.\n",
  "id": "USN-2482-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2015-01-23T01:19:22Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1"
    },
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    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "elfutils vulnerability",
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}



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