CVE-2009-4135 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2009-4135?

CVE-2009-4135 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Dec 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4135?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Coreutils.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4135?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4135 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2009-4135 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4135 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q7ww-m6jm-qmwq.