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CVE-2015-1395 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059 Patch  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-1395
NVD Published Date:
08/25/2017
NVD Last Modified:
08/29/2017
Source:
Debian GNU/Linux