metadata/glsa/glsa-201904-17.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201904-17">
  <title>Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Patch, the worst of
    which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">patch</product>
  <announced>2019-04-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-04-17</revised>
  <bug>647792</bug>
  <bug>647794</bug>
  <bug>652710</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.6-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.6-r3</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>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</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-r3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000156">
      CVE-2018-1000156
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6951">CVE-2018-6951</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6952">CVE-2018-6952</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-04-11T21:19:29Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-04-17T18:28:49Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>