CVE-2015-1396

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3