Link following in SUSE products - CVE-2015-1196
Published: January 21, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40930
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1196
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.
Affected software
Patch
Oracle Solaris
Opensuse
Slackware Linux
Oracle Solaris
Opensuse
Slackware Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1196
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/173
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72074
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775227
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182154
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99967