53 lines
1.7 KiB
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53 lines
1.7 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201612-12">
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<title>Patch: Denial of Service</title>
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<synopsis>Patch is vulnerable to a locally generated Denial of Service
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condition.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">patch</product>
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<announced>2016-12-05</announced>
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<revised count="1">2016-12-05</revised>
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<bug>538658</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">2.7.4</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">2.7.4</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the
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diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files,
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producing patched versions.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Due to a flaw in Patch, the application can enter an infinite loop when
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processing a specially crafted diff file.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could pass a specially crafted diff file to Patch,
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possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All patch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/patch-2.7.4"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T07:47:45Z">
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BlueKnight
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-05T01:16:43Z">whissi</metadata>
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</glsa>
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