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.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2473-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils allows local users to gain     privileges via a symlink attack on a directory tree under /tmp. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2009-4135)

    Bertrand Jacquin and Fiedler Roman discovered date and touch incorrectly handled user-supplied input. An     attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code. (CVE-2014-9471)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A vulnerability were discovered and corrected in coreutils :

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 (CVE-2009-4135).

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

CVE-2009-4135 : Unsafe temporary directory use in 'distcheck' rule

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
80552	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : coreutils vulnerabilities (USN-2473-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
44123	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : coreutils (MDVSA-2010:024)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
43332	Fedora 11 : coreutils-7.2-5.fc11 (2009-13216)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
43331	Fedora 12 : coreutils-7.6-8.fc12 (2009-13181)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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