CVE catalog
CVE-2015-1396
patch: CVE-2015-1396
- Severity
- High · CVSS 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 3.25% · Oct 25, 2026
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | patch | sid | 2.8.1-1 | fixed |
| Debian | patch | forky | 2.8.1-1 | fixed |
| Debian | patch | trixie | 2.8-2 | fixed |
| Debian | patch | bookworm | 2.7.6-7 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | patch | 14.04 | 2.7.1-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | patch | 14.04 | 2.7.1-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | patch | 14.04 | 2.7.1-4ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | patch | 14.04 | 2.7.1-4ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | patch | 14.04 | 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | patch | source | sid | 2.7.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [775901] |
| Debian | patch | source | forky | 2.7.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [775901] |
| Debian | patch | source | trixie | 2.7.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [775901] |
| Debian | patch | source | bookworm | 2.7.3-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [775901] |
| Ubuntu | patch | deb | 14.04 | 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1396 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [patch]Fixed
Details (2)
2.7.6-7· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.7.3-1dsa · patch · debian · bookworm; dsa · patch · debian · 12
2.7.6-7· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2.7.3-1dsa · patch · debian · bookworm; dsa · patch · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [patch]Fixed
Details (2)
2.8-2· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.7.3-1dsa · patch · debian · 13
2.8-2· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2.7.3-1dsa · patch · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2015_1019-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1396]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1396]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1396]
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