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CVE-2015-1416

Published: 5 February 2018

Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	MITRE defined this CVE for version < 2.3 but didn't inspect newer versions for similar flaws.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable (2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1)
	trusty	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Released (2.5-1)
	vivid	Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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