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    CVE-2015-1395

    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.

    Published:Jan 20, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Aug 25, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.01515
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Patch

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    References

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

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