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    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)


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        {
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                {
                  "id": "CVE-2014-9471",
                  "severity": [
                    {
                      "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"
              }
            ]
          },
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            "name": "coreutils",
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          },
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                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
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                }
              ],
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "8.20-3ubuntu5",
            "8.21-1ubuntu3",
            "8.21-1ubuntu4",
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          ]
        }
      ],
      "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",
      "upstream": [
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2009-4135",
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9471"
      ]
    }