Description
GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13638 ↗
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29 ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/ ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/ ↗
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061 ↗