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FreeBSD -- shell injection vulnerability in patch(1)

Affected packages
10.1 <= FreeBSD < 10.1_16

Details

VuXML ID 0c6759dd-600a-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8
Discovery 2015-07-28
Entry 2016-08-11

Problem Description:

Due to insufficient sanitization of the input patch stream, it is possible for a patch file to cause patch(1) to run commands in addition to the desired SCCS or RCS commands.

Impact:

This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands as the user invoking patch(1) against a specially crafted patch file, which could be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-1416
FreeBSD Advisory SA-15:14.bsdpatch

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