CVE-2014-9471 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9471?

CVE-2014-9471 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9471?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnu Coreutils.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9471?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2014-9471 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9471 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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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 DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9471, GHSA-vg73-g8m4-q62r, MGASA-2015-0029, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9471, USN-2473-1.