CVE-2010-4651

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2651-1

Posted Jun 22, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2651-1 - Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file paths in patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Laszlo Boszormenyi discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle some patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2010-4651, CVE-2014-9637, CVE-2015-1196, CVE-2015-1395, CVE-2015-1396

SHA-256 | e43ff81e4eac19b638143530ecd655f45f29338ebb1060483b4634127142c235

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