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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2019· Updated Aug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-1396

CVE-2015-1396

Description

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.

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