CVE-2014-9447

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

5.02%

Published

Jan 2, 2015

Modified

May 6, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 0.152 and 0.161 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

Affected Products (2)

elfutils_project · elfutilsvulnerable

References (20)

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0033.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148321.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148326.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/61934

http://secunia.com/advisories/62560

http://secunia.com/advisories/62661

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:047