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ubuntu-cve-2014-9447

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-01-02 00:00

Modified

2026-04-22 07:37

Summary

Details

Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 0.152 and 0.161 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files to the root directory via a / (slash) in a crafted archive, as demonstrated using the ar program.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9447	REPORT
	https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils…	REPORT
	https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/co…	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/29/2	REPORT
	http://secunia.com/advisories/61934	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9447	REPORT

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CVE-2014-9447 (GCVE-0-2014-9447)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-02 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

11 references

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Date Public

2014-12-27 00:00

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usn-2482-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-01-23 01:19

Modified

2026-04-22 07:36

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

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9447	REPORT

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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ubuntu-cve-2014-9447

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2014-9447 (GCVE-0-2014-9447)

usn-2482-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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