CVE-2015-1196

2015-01-2100:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

69.7%

JSON

GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a
symlink attack in a patch file.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	git-style patch support added in 2.7 no upstream fix as of 2015-01-19
seth-arnold	fix for the fix http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=41688ad8ef88bc296f3bed30b171ec73e5876b88

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchpatch< 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.10noarchpatch< 2.7.1-5ubuntu0.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.04noarchpatch< 2.7.3-1UNKNOWN