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CVE-2015-1395
high
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html