CVE-2014-9471

Summary

CVECVE-2014-9471
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-16 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-08 15:18:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2473-1: coreutils vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
#16872 - `date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"'` crashes - GNU bug report logs CONFIRM debbugs.gnu.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - parse_datetime() bug in coreutils MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
#766147 - php5-common: session cleanup can be misused to change modification time of arbitrary files to "now" when symlink protection not enabled - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:179 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Broken Link
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2015-0029 - Updated coreutils packages fix CVE-2014-9471 CONFIRM advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - AW: parse_datetime() bug in coreutils MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: parse_datetime() bug in coreutils MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA62226 - Ubuntu update for coreutils - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution (GLSA 201612-22) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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