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<glsa id="201612-22">
  <title>Coreutils: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Coreutils could lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">coreutils</product>
  <announced>2016-12-08</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-08</revised>
  <bug>530514</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/coreutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.23</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.23</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation
      utilities of the GNU operating system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A memory corruption flaw in GNU Coreutils’ parse_datetime function was
      reported. Applications using parse_datetime(), such as touch or date, may
      accepted untrusted input.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Coreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/coreutils-8.23"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9471">CVE-2014-9471</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-27T06:48:53Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-08T13:11:59Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
