USN-2482-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / elfutils

Package

Name: elfutils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/elfutils@0.158-0ubuntu5.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.158-0ubuntu5.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.157-1ubuntu1

0.158-0ubuntu3

0.158-0ubuntu4

0.158-0ubuntu5

0.158-0ubuntu5.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "elfutils",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libasm-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libasm1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdw-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdw1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libelf-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libelf1",
            "binary_version": "0.158-0ubuntu5.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-9447"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2482-1.json"