CVE-2009-4135

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2473-1

Posted Jan 15, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2473-1 - 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. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2009-4135, CVE-2014-9471

SHA-256 | 8851857d456171149f36bb09e5b7ecd20734f5800855deeff959716f71064910

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-024

Posted Jan 24, 2010

Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-024 - The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp. Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

tags | advisory, local

systems | linux, mandriva

advisories | CVE-2009-4135

SHA-256 | 9a2edee2c3d8ab5cb21c2519e777260cebfb60a7a2d22e8e65420ebbd74e2d82

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