PT-2015-5263 · Gnu+3 · Gnu Patch+3

Vasyl Kaigorodov · Published 2015-01-28 · Updated 2020-02-17 · CVE-2015-1396

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU patch versions prior to 2.7.4

Description A Directory Traversal issue allows a remote attacker to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. This issue exists due to an incomplete fix for a previous problem.

Recommendations For GNU patch versions prior to 2.7.4, update to version 2.7.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to patch files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1846

CVE-2015-1396

SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1

USN-2651-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnu Patch

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 36

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4651 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9637 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4651 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1396 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1396 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1846 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1395 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2651-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1196 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1395 · Security Note