CVE-2015-1395: Path Traversal
First published: Tue Jan 20 2015(Updated: )
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.
Credit: security@debian.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/patch | <2.7.3 | 2.7.3 |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =20 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =21 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.10 | |
| GNU patch | <=2.7.2 |
Remedy
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd
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Reference Links
- http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1184491
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490
- https://www.vinc17.net/
- https://www.vinc17.net/blog/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1196
- http://people.debian.org/~jmw
- https://bugs.debian.org/775227
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/2
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0000000-064450
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0775873-B5D91A
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0775901-CA9436
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9637
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059
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