Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution — GLSA 201612-22

A vulnerability in Coreutils could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition.

Affected packages

Background

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.

Description

A memory corruption flaw in GNU Coreutils’ parse_datetime function was reported. Applications using parse_datetime(), such as touch or date, may accepted untrusted input.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/coreutils-8.23"
 

References

• CVE-2014-9471

Release date
December 08, 2016

Latest revision
December 08, 2016: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local, remote

Bugzilla entries

• 530514