summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml')
-rw-r--r--metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml53
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml b/metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c4264b73b4e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201908-22">
+ <title>Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Patch, the worst of
+ which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">patch</product>
+ <announced>2019-08-18</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2019-08-18</revised>
+ <bug>690136</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.7.6-r4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.6-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the
+ diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files,
+ producing patched versions.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review
+ the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker could pass a specially crafted diff file to Patch,
+ possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition or arbitrary code
+ execution.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Patch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r4"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13636">CVE-2019-13636</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13638">CVE-2019-13638</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-16T21:41:00Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-18T02:24:40Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>