USN-2473-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2009-4135)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-01-14 23:27 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
VLAI
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
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"id": "CVE-2014-9471",
"severity": [
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"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
]
}
],
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "coreutils",
"binary_version": "8.21-1ubuntu5.1"
},
{
"binary_name": "mktemp",
"binary_version": "8.21-1ubuntu5.1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
"name": "coreutils",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/coreutils@8.21-1ubuntu5.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
},
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"versions": [
"8.20-3ubuntu5",
"8.21-1ubuntu3",
"8.21-1ubuntu4",
"8.21-1ubuntu5"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "It was discovered that the distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU\ncoreutils allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack\non a directory tree under /tmp. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2009-4135)\n\nBertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly\nhandled user-supplied input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause\na denial of service or potentially execute code. (CVE-2014-9471)\n",
"id": "USN-2473-1",
"modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:51Z",
"published": "2015-01-14T23:27:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2473-1"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-4135"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9471"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "coreutils vulnerabilities",
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}
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