MGASA-2015-0068

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MGASA-2015-0068

Summary: Updated patch packages fix security vulnerabilities

Details: Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities: It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault (CVE-2014-9637). It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by applying a specially crafted patch, with the privileges of the user running patch (CVE-2015-1395). GNU patch before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file (CVE-2015-1196).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149140.html