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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-13638

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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-13638

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
01/21/2025
Added
01/20/2025
Modified
02/04/2025

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)

  • vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

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