CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4651
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in util.c in GNU patch 2.6.1 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a filename that is specified with a .. (dot dot) or full pathname, a related issue to CVE-2010-1679.
Affected configurations
• gnu gnu patch (<= 2.6.1)
• gnu gnu patch 2.5
• gnu gnu patch 2.5.4
• gnu gnu patch 2.5.9
• gnu gnu patch 2.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=685a78b6052f4df6eac6d625a545cfb54a6ac0e1 Patch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055241.html Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055246.html Patch
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2010-12/msg00000.html Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/10 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/19 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/20 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/21 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43663 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43677 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723 support.apple.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46768 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0600 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529 Patch
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=685a78b6052f4df6eac6d625a545cfb54a6ac0e1 Patch
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055241.html Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055246.html Patch
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2010-12/msg00000.html Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/10 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/19 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/20 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/21 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43663 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43677 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723 support.apple.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46768 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0600 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529 Patch