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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1396
Reference (s):
- BID:75358
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358