gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201908-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-22">
  <title>Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Patch, the worst of
    which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">patch</product>
  <announced>2019-08-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-08-18</revised>
  <bug>690136</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.6-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.6-r4</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>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </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 or arbitrary code
      execution.
    </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-2.7.6-r4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13636">CVE-2019-13636</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13638">CVE-2019-13638</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-16T21:41:00Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-18T02:24:40Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>