USN-2473-1

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)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / coreutils

Package

Name: coreutils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/coreutils@8.21-1ubuntu5.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

8.21-1ubuntu5.1

Affected versions

8.*

8.20-3ubuntu5

8.21-1ubuntu3

8.21-1ubuntu4

8.21-1ubuntu5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "coreutils",
            "binary_version": "8.21-1ubuntu5.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "mktemp",
            "binary_version": "8.21-1ubuntu5.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-9471"
        }
    ]
}