CVE-2014-9471
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.1%
exploitation probability
7.1%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the "--date=TZ="123"345" @1" string to the touch or date command.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0029.htmlhttp://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16872https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766147http://secunia.com/advisories/62226https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-22http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2473-1http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:179http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/4http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/11