CVE-2015-1416

HIGH

FreeBSD <10.2-BETA2-p2, Bitrig, GNU patch <2.2.5 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/1

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/9

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/4

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.asc

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033110

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/6

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0088

EPSS Percentile 75.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (3)

freebsd/freebsd 10.0

freebsd/freebsd 10.1

freebsd/freebsd 10.2

Published Feb 05, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026