CVE-2018-1000156: Input Validation

First published: Fri Apr 06 2018(Updated: )

GNU patch does not properly sanitize patch files allowing for malicious patches to pass arbitrary shell commands to ed. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into applying malicious patches with the patch command.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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