CVE-2014-9471 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1410-COREUTILS-628877
  • published16 Jan 2015
  • disclosed16 Jan 2015

Introduced: 16 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9471  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the "--date=TZ="123"345" @1" string to the touch or date command.