CVE-2015-1416

Summary

CVECVE-2015-1416
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-05 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-13 19:53:00 UTC
DescriptionLarry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 10.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
FreeBSD patch(1) Utility CVE-2015-1416 Command Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
FreeBSD patch(1) Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Commands on the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
FreeBSD-SA-15:14 FREEBSD www.freebsd.org Vendor Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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