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CVE-2015-1196

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.

Affected products

• GNU patch: 2.7.1
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/173
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72074
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775227
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182154
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99967
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/173
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

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