CVE-2019-13636

medium

Description

In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00016.html

https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45fabc304acfb5d71a

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-07-17

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium