Vulnerability CVE-2015-1395
Published: 2017-08-25

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Complete
None
Affected software
GNU -> Patch 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 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
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