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Debian: CVE-2015-1416: patch -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2015-1416: patch -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/05/2018
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-patch

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