gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201612-12.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-12">
<title>Patch: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>Patch is vulnerable to a locally generated Denial of Service
condition.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">patch</product>
<announced>2016-12-05</announced>
<revised count="1">2016-12-05</revised>
<bug>538658</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.7.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.7.4</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>Due to a flaw in Patch, the application can enter an infinite loop when
processing a specially crafted diff file.
</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.
</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-2.7.4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T07:47:45Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-05T01:16:43Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>