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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : coreutils vulnerabilities (USN-2473-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80552

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected coreutils and / or mktemp packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2473-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80552

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2473-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2015

Updated: 10/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4135

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mktemp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4135, CVE-2014-9471

BID: 37256, 71268

CWE: 59

USN: 2473-1