patch: CVE-2019-13636

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patch: CVE-2019-13636

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: patch: CVE-2019-13636

Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:28:44 +0200

Source: patch
Version: 2.7.6-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Control: found -1 2.7.6-4

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for patch.

CVE-2019-13636[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13636
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13636
[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45fabc304acfb5d71a

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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