CVE-2015-1396

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 25, 2019
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 27, 2015

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20150127 Re: CVE Request: patch: CVE needed for incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196?mailing-list
75358vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

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