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CVE-2014-9447

Published: Jan 2, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 0.152 and 0.161 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files to the root directory via a / (slash) in a crafted archive, as demonstrated using the ar program.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

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[oss-security] 20141229 CVE request: dir traversal in elfutils

mailing-list

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http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0033.html

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FEDORA-2015-0677

vendor-advisory

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FEDORA-2015-0692

vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/?id=147018e729e7c22eeabf15b82d26e4bf68a0d18e

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third-party-advisory

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[elfutils-devel] 20141227 Directory traversal in `ar`

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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