Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package patch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-PATCH-612653
  • published24 Jul 2019
  • disclosed17 Jul 2019

Introduced: 17 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-13636  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream patch package and not the patch package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.