CVE-2015-1396 — Vulnetix

CVE-2015-1396 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 3.66% · 88.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

3.66%

88.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	patch	0, 2.7.1-3, 2.7.1-4

Exploit Intelligence

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358 (circl)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 (circl)
[oss-security] 20150127 Re: CVE Request: patch: CVE needed for incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196? (circl)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764 (circl)

Timeline

Jan 28, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1396 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2651-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1396 third-party-advisory

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