Security Advisory

CVE-2015-1396

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-11-25 15:44:16
Last updated 2024-08-06 04:40:18
Assigner debian
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.