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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1396

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1396 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12patch0, 0, 0
Debian:11patch0, 0, 0
Debian:14patch0, 0, 0
Debian:13patch0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 25, 2019 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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