PT-2015-5158 · Gnu+3 · Gnu Patch+3

Martin Prpič · Published 2015-01-21 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-1196

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU patch version 2.7.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.

Recommendations For GNU patch version 2.7.1, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1846

CVE-2015-1196

MGASA-2015-0068

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10379-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1019-1

USN-2651-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnu Patch

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 51

• 🔥 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775227 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1846 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1396 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2651-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1196 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1196 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1395 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1196 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1196 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2651-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1196 · Vendor Advisory