CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4135

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2009-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • gnu coreutils 5.2.1 • gnu coreutils 5.91 • gnu coreutils 5.92 • gnu coreutils 5.93 • gnu coreutils 5.94 • gnu coreutils 5.95 • gnu coreutils 5.96 • gnu coreutils 5.97 • gnu coreutils 6.2 • gnu coreutils 6.3 • gnu coreutils 6.4 • gnu coreutils 6.5 • gnu coreutils 6.6 • gnu coreutils 6.7 • gnu coreutils 6.8 • gnu coreutils 6.9 • gnu coreutils 6.10 • gnu coreutils 6.11 • gnu coreutils 6.12 • gnu coreutils 7.1 • gnu coreutils 7.2 • gnu coreutils 7.3 • gnu coreutils 7.4 • gnu coreutils 7.5 • gnu coreutils 7.6 • gnu coreutils 8.1 • fedoraproject fedora 11 • fedoraproject fedora 12

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References