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CVE-2014-9447 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (elfutils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 5.
Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 0.152 and 0.161 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files to the root directory via a / (slash) in a crafted archive, as demonstrated using the ar program.