CVE-2014-9447: Elfutils Project Elfutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elfutils Project Elfutils: version 0.152 only; version 0.161 only

Published 2015-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.