vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-13638: CVE-2019-13638 patch: OS shell command injection when processing crafted patch files (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2019-07-26
Added
2019-09-20
Modified
2024-11-27

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)

redhat-upgrade-patchredhat-upgrade-patch-debuginforedhat-upgrade-patch-debugsource
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