USN-2473-1

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    USN-2473-1

    Published: 14 Jan 2015Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    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)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2473-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-4135, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9471

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: coreutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.21-1ubuntu5.1

    Affected versions

    8.20-3ubuntu5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High