Executive Summary

Summary
Title Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-22 First vendor Publication 2016-12-08
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Coreutils could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition.

Background

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.

Description

A memory corruption flaw in GNU Coreutils' parse_datetime function was reported. Applications using parse_datetime(), such as touch or date, may accepted untrusted input.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Coreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/coreutils-8.23"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-9471
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9471

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-22

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-22.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 28
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-29 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_coreutils-150416.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-31 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-179.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2473-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-12-09 13:25:25
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-08 17:23:31
  • First insertion