CVE-2019-13636 in Ubuntu

CVE-2019-13636 (retired)

Priority

Description

In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in
certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13636
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00016.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4071-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4071-2

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932401
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/patch/+bug/1837001

Assigned-to

leosilva

Package

Source: patch (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	released (2.7.6-5)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):	not-affected
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr):	released (2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4+esm1)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):	released (2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.2)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):	released (2.7.6-2ubuntu1.1)
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo):	released (2.7.6-3ubuntu0.1)
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan):	released (2.7.6-5)

Patches:

Upstream:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45fabc304acfb5d71a

More Information

Updated: 2019-07-25 15:15:14 UTC (commit 0c38e75b8d43dd7ad92f324bd0f8d6f41db1b4f0)