{"id":"USN-2473-1","summary":"coreutils vulnerabilities","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","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:51Z","published":"2015-01-14T23:27:23Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9471"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-9471","UBUNTU-CVE-2009-4135","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9471"],"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"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"coreutils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/coreutils@8.21-1ubuntu5.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.21-1ubuntu5.1"}]}],"versions":["8.20-3ubuntu5","8.21-1ubuntu3","8.21-1ubuntu4","8.21-1ubuntu5"],"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"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2014-9471"}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2473-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}