CVE-2015-1395

Description

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.

References

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3