SUSE-SU-2015:0792-1: moderate: Security update for coreutils

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   SUSE Security Update: Security update for coreutils
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2015:0792-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #911832 #919809 
Cross-References:   CVE-2014-9471
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
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   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:

       * CVE-2014-9471
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9471>


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


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9471.html
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/911832
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/919809
   https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=4ffcdcdccb637f20fedffad57575a514