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Posted on 12 February 2015
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:047
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : elfutils
Date : February 12, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated elfutils packages fix security vulnerability:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in
libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 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 (CVE-2014-9447).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9447
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0033.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
a649aaa512abb4a77f9acb8686c9c400 mbs1/x86_64/elfutils-0.152-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
91782eac7c4199f1297ea9096888af09 mbs1/x86_64/lib64elfutils1-0.152-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
9b21bd90792fc17dcba2ac7687ba60be mbs1/x86_64/lib64elfutils-devel-0.152-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
118fb171f9b070c3a17060c90539f971 mbs1/x86_64/lib64elfutils-static-devel-0.152-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
55b160d61795e4a58694b1e82d706156 mbs1/SRPMS/elfutils-0.152-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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