Advisories » MGASA-2015-0068

Updated patch packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 17 Feb 2015
Modification date: 17 Feb 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-9637 , CVE-2015-1196 , CVE-2015-1395

Description

Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities:

It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later
segfault (CVE-2014-9637).

It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style
patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This could allow an
attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by applying a specially crafted patch,
with the privileges of the user running patch (CVE-2015-1395).

GNU patch before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via
a symlink attack in a patch file (CVE-2015-1196).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149140.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9637
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1196
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1395

SRPMS

4/core

• patch-2.7.4-1.mga4