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GSD-2015-1396

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
Details
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.
Aliases
Aliases

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