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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1395

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary fi...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 patch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.7.3-1"}]}]

Debian:13 patch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.7.3-1"}]}]

Debian:14 patch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.7.3-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org