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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-1396: Vulnerability in GNU patch utility

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-1396: Vulnerability in GNU patch utility

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/25/2019
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-2-upgrade-text-gnu-patch-2-7-5-0-175-2-13-0-4-0

References

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