Directory Traversal Affecting elfutils package, versions <0.159-4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ELFUTILS-322399
  • published2 Jan 2015
  • disclosed2 Jan 2015

Introduced: 2 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9447  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 elfutils to version 0.159-4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elfutils package and not the elfutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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