CVE-2015-1396

Description

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

3.663

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Apply a diff file to an original (USN-2651-1) patch_2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb	Linux
Apply a diff file to an original (USN-2651-1) patch_2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb	Linux
SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 ) patch-2.7.5-7.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 ) patch-debuginfo-2.7.5-7.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 ) patch-debugsource-2.7.5-7.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234