Link Following Affecting patch package, versions <2.7.6-3+deb10u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.38% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PATCH-452285
- published 24 Jul 2019
- disclosed 17 Jul 2019
Introduced: 17 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-13636 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.
In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.
References
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13636
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00016.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13636
- 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=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45fabc304acfb5d71a
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-13636
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/