CVE-2015-1396
Published: 28 January 2015
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(2.7.3-1)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3)
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Patches: Upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=41688ad8ef88bc296f3bed30b171ec73e5876b88 |
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