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.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html ↗
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28 ↗
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490 ↗