Description
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.
Published: 2019-11-25
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 3.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-1533 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2651-1 GNU patch vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:40:18.555Z

Reserved: 2015-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-1396

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-25T16:15:12.817

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:25:20.730

Link: CVE-2015-1396

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-01-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-1396 - Bugzilla

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