CVE-2015-1395

Published: 28 January 2015

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	git-style patch support added in 2.7

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Not vulnerable (2.6-2ubuntu1)
	precise	Not vulnerable (2.6.1-3)
	trusty	Released (2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3)
	upstream	Released (2.7.3-1)
	utopic	Released (2.7.1-5ubuntu0.3)
	vivid	Released (2.7.3-1)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Bugs

Join the discussion

Canonical is offering Expanded Security Maintenance

Canonical is offering Ubuntu Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) for security fixes and essential packages.

Find out more about ESM ›