CVE-2015-1196

Publication date 21 January 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.

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git-style patch support added in 2.7 no upstream fix as of 2015-01-19

fix for the fix http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=41688ad8ef88bc296f3bed30b171ec73e5876b88

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Package	Patch details
patch	Upstream: ?id=4e9