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

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Not vulnerable (2.6-2ubuntu1)
	precise	Not vulnerable (2.6.1-3)
	trusty	Released (2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3)
	upstream	Released (2.7.3-1)
	utopic	Released (2.7.1-5ubuntu0.3)
	vivid	Released (2.7.3-1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1396
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2651-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775901

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