{"id":"USN-2482-1","summary":"elfutils vulnerability","details":"Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain\nfilesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw\nto perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process\nextracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory.\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:06:58.346968Z","published":"2015-01-23T01:19:22Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9447"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-9447","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9447"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2482-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9447"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elfutils","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/elfutils@0.158-0ubuntu5.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.158-0ubuntu5.2"}]}],"versions":["0.157-1ubuntu1","0.158-0ubuntu3","0.158-0ubuntu4","0.158-0ubuntu5","0.158-0ubuntu5.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"elfutils","binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.2"},{"binary_name":"libasm1","binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.2"},{"binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.2","binary_name":"libdw1"},{"binary_name":"libelf1","binary_version":"0.158-0ubuntu5.2"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2014-9447","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2482-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}