Published: 25/11/2019 Updated: 17/02/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 570

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #775901 patch: CVE-2015-1396: another directory traversal via symlinks Package: patch; Maintainer for patch is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Source for patch is src:patch (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:42:06 UTC Severit ...

Several security issues were fixed in GNU patch ...

CWE-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775901 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2651-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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