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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

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

Priority

Medium

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