OS Command Injection Affecting patch package, versions <2.7.6-3+deb10u1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PATCH-451979
- published 24 Jul 2019
- disclosed 26 Jul 2019
Introduced: 24 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-13638 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
patch
to version 2.7.6-3+deb10u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream patch
package and not the patch
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13638
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13638
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-13638
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/