vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-13638: Security patch for patch (ALAS-2019-1312)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 24, 2019
Added
Oct 26, 2019
Modified
Oct 26, 2019

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

amazon-linux-upgrade-patch
Title
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