Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201904-17

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Patch, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

sys-devel/patch on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.7.6-r3
Unaffected versions >= 2.7.6-r3

Background

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.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Patch users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r3"
 

References

Release date
April 17, 2019

Latest revision
April 17, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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