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This could allow an\nattacker to overwrite arbitrary files by applying a specially crafted patch,\nwith the privileges of the user running patch (CVE-2015-1395).\n\nGNU patch before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via\na symlink attack in a patch file (CVE-2015-1196).\n","status":"published","published":"2015-02-17T18:38:13Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:47.269069126Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.488462Z"},{"id":"SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1","title":"Security update for patch","description":"The GNU patch utility was updated to 2.7.5 to fix three security issues and one non-security bug.\n\nThe following vulnerabilities were fixed:\n\n* CVE-2015-1196: directory traversal flaw when handling git-style patches. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into applying a specially crafted patch. (bsc#913678)\n* CVE-2015-1395: directory traversal flaw when handling patches which rename files. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into applying a specially crafted patch. (bsc#915328) \n* CVE-2015-1396: directory traversal flaw via symbolic links. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into applying a by applying a specially crafted patch. (bsc#915329)\n\nThe following bug was fixed:\n\n* bsc#904519:  Function names in hunks (from diff -p) are now preserved in  reject files.\n","status":"published","published":"2015-06-03T12:13:47Z","modified":"2026-02-04T04:24:50.376113Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:53:41.276824Z"},{"id":"USN-2651-1","title":"patch vulnerabilities","description":"Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file paths in\npatch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could\noverwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-4651)\n\nLászló Böszörményi discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle some\npatch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could cause a\ndenial of service. (CVE-2014-9637)\n\nJakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle symbolic links in\ngit style patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that\ncould overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the\nprogram. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10.\n(CVE-2015-1196)\n\nJakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file renames in\ngit style patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that\ncould overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the\nprogram. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10.\n(CVE-2015-1395)\n\nJakub Wilk discovered the fix for CVE-2015-1196 was incomplete for GNU patch.\nAn attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary\nfiles with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only\naffected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1396)\n","status":"published","published":"2015-06-22T23:50:54Z","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:54Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:09.227524Z"}]}}