USN-2482-1

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    USN-2482-1

    Published: 23 Jan 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9447

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: elfutils

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.158-0ubuntu5.2

    Affected versions

    0.157-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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