Debian: DSA-4489-1 Moderate: GNU Patch Command Injection Risk
debian
July 27, 2019
Imre Rad discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU patch, leading to shell command injection or escape from the working directory and access and overwrite files, if specially craft...
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Summary
This update includes a bugfix for a regression introduced by the patch
to address CVE-2018-1000156 when applying an ed-style patch (#933140).
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.7.5-1+deb9u2.
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.7.6-3+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your patch packages.
For the detailed security status of patch please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/patch
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: patch
CVE ID: CVE-2019-13636 CVE-2019-13638
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