Coreutils
CVE-2024-0684
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Heap buffer bounds checking
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
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Alpine Linux: coreutils fixed in 9.4-r2
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
A heap overflow occurs when a program writes data beyond the bounds of a buffer allocated in the heap memory region.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly ex
Privilege escalation to root in uutils coreutils chroot utility allows low-privileged local attackers with write access
Local privilege escalation in uutils coreutils before 0.10.0: the `install` utility applies a requested setuid/setgid mo
Recursive chmod operations can bypass --preserve-root protection in uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.6.0, allowing l
Local privilege escalation in uutils coreutils mkfifo allows authenticated users to downgrade permissions on arbitrary f
Privilege escalation in uutils coreutils mkfifo utility allows local attackers with low privileges to manipulate file pe
Bypass of --preserve-root protection in uutils coreutils rm utility allows local users to recursively delete the root fi
The mv utility in uutils coreutils improperly expands symbolic links instead of preserving them during moves across file
The cp utility in uutils coreutils improperly preserves setuid and setgid bits when the chown operation fails during fil
The split utility in uutils coreutils contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device move op
The touch utility in uutils coreutils suffers from a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows lo
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