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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1416
Reference (s):
- BID:76116
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116
- FREEBSD:FreeBSD-SA-15:14
- URL: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.asc
- MLIST:[oss-security] 20150730 CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1)