CVE-2015-1396

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - security@debian.org

Published

2019-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Patch (Gnu)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764