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CVE-2019-13638

GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payloa…

Impact

GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
GnuPatch
Version 2.7.6
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification

CWE-78

References