Advisories » MGASA-2015-0029

Updated coreutils packages fix CVE-2014-9471

Publication date: 19 Jan 2015
Modification date: 19 Jan 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-9471

Description

Updated coreutils packages fix security vulnerability:

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).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15050
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2473-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9471

SRPMS

4/core

• coreutils-8.21-6.1.mga4