Directory Traversal Affecting patch package, versions <2.7.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.37% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PATCH-303819
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed25 Nov 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2015-1396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 patch to version 2.7.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream patch package and not the patch package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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