vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20969: Security patch for patch (ALAS-2019-1317)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 16, 2019
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-patchamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-patch-debuginfo
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