UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1396

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / patch

Package

Name: patch
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/patch@2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.1-3

2.7.1-4

2.7.1-4ubuntu1

2.7.1-4ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "patch",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "patch-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}