Ubuntu alert USN-2473-1 (coreutils)
| From: | Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | [USN-2473-1] coreutils vulnerabilities | |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:06:52 -0800 | |
| Message-ID: | <20150115000652.GA14934@hunt> |
========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2473-1 January 14, 2015 coreutils vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Summary: date and touch could be made to crash or run programs if they handled specially crafted input. Software Description: - coreutils: GNU core utilities 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) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu5.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: coreutils 8.13-3ubuntu3.3 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2473-1 CVE-2009-4135, CVE-2014-9471 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/8.21-1ubun... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/8.13-3ubun... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/7.4-2ubunt... -- ubuntu-security-announce mailing list ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security...