CVE-2015-1196

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

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-01-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Patch (Gnu)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Solaris (Oracle)

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/173
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72074
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775227
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182154
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99967