CVE-2015-1416

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033110Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.ascVendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/02/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76116Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033110Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.ascVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 5, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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