Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-13638: Security patch for patch (ALAS-2019-1317)
9
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
07/26/2019
05/08/2020
04/27/2020
09/30/2022
Description
GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-patch
- amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-patch-debuginfo
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