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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13636: Link Following

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13636: Link Following

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-patch

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