Coreutils vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Coreutils is made by Gnu. We track 10 published vulnerabilities in it, across 62 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Coreutils, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 7.1%CVE-2014-9471High
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"...
- 2.3%CVE-2015-4042Critical
Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long...
- 0.5%CVE-2015-4041High
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows...
- 0.5%CVE-2024-0684Medium
A flaw was found in the GNU coreutils "split" program.
- 0.4%CVE-2016-2781Medium
chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.
- 0.4%CVE-2009-4135Medium
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.
- 0.3%CVE-2017-18018High
In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of...
- 0.3%CVE-2008-1946Medium
The default configuration of su in /etc/pam.d/su in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 allows local users to gain the privileges of a (1) locked or (2) expired account by entering the account name on the command line, related to...
- 0.2%CVE-2015-1865Medium
fts.c in coreutils 8.4 allows local users to delete arbitrary files.
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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.
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We track 10 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Coreutils, across 62 versions.
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