PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-01-02
Candidate: CVE-2014-9447
PublicDate: 2015-01-02 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9447
 https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-December/004499.html
 https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/?id=147018e729e7c22eeabf15b82d26e4bf68a0d18e
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/29/2
 http://secunia.com/advisories/61934
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 tyhicks> Directory traversal is restricted to the root directory
Bugs:
 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1414206
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Alexander Cherepanov
Assigned-to: tyhicks
CVSS: 

Patches_elfutils:
upstream_elfutils: released (0.159-4.1)
lucid_elfutils: released (0.143-1ubuntu0.1)
precise_elfutils: released (0.152-1ubuntu3.1)
trusty_elfutils: released (0.158-0ubuntu5.2)
trusty/esm_elfutils: released (0.158-0ubuntu5.2)
utopic_elfutils: released (0.160-0ubuntu2.1)
devel_elfutils: released (0.160-0ubuntu3)