Bug 1178888 (CVE-2014-9447)

Summary: CVE-2014-9447 elfutils: directory traversal in read_long_names()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: aoliva, drepper, fche, jakub, jan.kratochvil, kanderso, lkocman, me, mjw, mjw, mnewsome, nobody+bgollahe, ohudlick, roland, sardella, slawomir, tmlcoch
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: elfutils 0.162 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1181525    
Bug Blocks: 1171146    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-05 15:26:15 UTC 
Directory traversal vulnerability was reported in elfutils [1] 'ar' utility.
Upstream commit with the analysis:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/?id=147018e729e7c22eeabf15b82d26e4bf68a0d18e

[1]: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-December/004499.html
Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2015-01-13 10:44:41 UTC 
Created elfutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1181525]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-01-19 01:35:27 UTC 
elfutils-0.161-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-01-20 20:59:37 UTC 
elfutils-0.161-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2017-06-30 11:52:04 UTC 
Fixed in RHEL6 via RHEA-2015:1302.

Fixed in RHEL7 via RHEA-2015:2126.