Resource exhaustion in coreutils - CVE-2014-9471
Published: March 27, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU87851
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9471
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
coreutils
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Gentoo Linux
sys-apps/coreutils
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Gentoo Linux
sys-apps/coreutils
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9471
Install updates from vendor's website.
coreutils - update to 8.23
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.4.0
sys-apps/coreutils - update to 8.23
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.4.0
sys-apps/coreutils - update to 8.23
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0029.html
- http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16872
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62226
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2473-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:179
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/11
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766147
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-22