SB2015012108 - Link following in Novell Opensuse
Published: January 21, 2015 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015012108
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1196)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
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