Upstream information

CVE-2015-1396 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.4
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 915329 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production
Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • patch >= 2.7.5-8.5.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 GA patch-2.7.5-8.5.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-247
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • patch >= 2.7.5-8.5.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 GA patch-2.7.5-8.5.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • patch >= 2.7.5-8.5.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 GA patch-2.7.5-8.5.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • patch >= 2.7.5-8.5.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 GA patch-2.7.5-8.5.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-247
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
  • patch >= 2.7.5-7.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 GA patch-2.7.5-7.1


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 patch Released
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL patch Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 patch Released
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 patch Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Image Server 12 SP2 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 patch Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS patch Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 patch Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS patch Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 patch Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 patch Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 patch Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 patch Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 patch Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 patch Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 patch Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 patch Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jan 28 14:16:05 2015
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:05:43 2023