FKIE_CVE-2015-1395
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-08-25 18:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:22
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedoraproject | fedora | 20 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 21 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.10 | |
| gnu | patch | * |
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