CVE-2015-1416

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 10.0, 10.1, 10.2

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033110
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.asc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116

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