vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13636: Link Following

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 17, 2019
Added
Nov 8, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-patch
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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