Security update for coreutils
SUSE Security Update: Security update for coreutils
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2015:0792-1 |
| Rating: | moderate |
| References: | #911832 #919809 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.
Description:
Coreutils was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.
The following vulnerability was fixed:
- Commands such as date, touch or using parse_datetime() could, when accepting untrusted input, allow an attacker to crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (bnc#911832, CVE-2014-9471)
The following non-security bug was fixed:
- df(1) executed against a bind mounted path which resided on a different file system could issue many unnecessary stat calls, causing unwanted performance issues. (bnc#919809)
Security Issues:
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-coreutils=10620 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-coreutils=10620 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-coreutils=10620
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64):
- coreutils-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- coreutils-lang-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- coreutils-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- coreutils-lang-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (ia64):
- coreutils-x86-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):
- coreutils-8.12-6.25.32.33.1
- coreutils-lang-8.12-6.25.32.33.1