Vulnerability CVE-2015-1396
Published: 2019-11-25   Modified: 2019-11-29

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Patch 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-1396
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-1396
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1396
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