Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-9637 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 2 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 3 | |
| Application | 8 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2015-050.NASL description Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities : It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault (CVE-2014-9637). It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by applying a specially crafted patch, with the privileges of the user running patch (CVE-2015-1395). GNU patch before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file (CVE-2015-1196). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 81933 published 2015-03-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81933 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : patch (MDVSA-2015:050) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-1165.NASL description Security fixes for CVE-2014-9637, CVE-2015-1196, and an infinite loop with a crafted diff. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-04-07 plugin id 82596 published 2015-04-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82596 title Fedora 20 : patch-2.7.5-1.fc20 (2015-1165) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1162-1.NASL description This update for patch fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-1000156: patch: Malicious patch files cause ed to execute arbitrary commands (bsc#1088420). - CVE-2014-9637: Prevent DoS by remote attackers (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file (bsc#914891). - CVE-2016-10713: Prevent out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() that could have lead to DoS via a crafted input file (bsc#1080918). - CVE-2010-4651: Fixed a directory traversal bug (bsc#662957) : Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109599 published 2018-05-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109599 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : patch (SUSE-SU-2018:1162-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2651-1.NASL description Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file paths in patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-4651) Laszlo Boszormenyi discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle some patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9637) Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle symbolic links in git style patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1196) Jakub Wilk discovered that GNU patch did not correctly handle file renames in git style patch files. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1395) Jakub Wilk discovered the fix for CVE-2015-1196 was incomplete for GNU patch. An attacker could specially craft a patch file that could overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. (CVE-2015-1396). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 84339 published 2015-06-23 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/84339 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : patch vulnerabilities (USN-2651-1) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2015-138.NASL description Updated patch package fixes security vulnerabilities : It was reported that a crafted diff file can make patch eat memory and later segfault (CVE-2014-9637). It was reported that the versions of the patch utility that support Git-style patches are vulnerable to a directory traversal flaw. This could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by applying a specially crafted patch, with the privileges of the user running patch (CVE-2015-1395). GNU patch before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file (CVE-2015-1196). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 82391 published 2015-03-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82391 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : patch (MDVSA-2015:138) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-1134.NASL description Security fixes for CVE-2014-9637 and CVE-2015-1196. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-02-02 plugin id 81112 published 2015-02-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/81112 title Fedora 21 : patch-2.7.3-1.fc21 (2015-1134) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1982.NASL description According to the versions of the patch package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.(CVE-2015-1196) - GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.(CVE-2014-9637) - A heap-based out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the patch utility parsed patch files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the patch utility by tricking it into processing crafted patch files.(CVE-2016-10713) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-09-24 plugin id 129176 published 2019-09-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129176 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : patch (EulerOS-SA-2019-1982) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2428.NASL description According to the versions of the patch package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.(CVE-2014-9637) - An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.(CVE-2016-10713) - GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.(CVE-2015-1196) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-04 plugin id 131582 published 2019-12-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131582 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : patch (EulerOS-SA-2019-2428) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1225.NASL description According to the versions of the patch package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.(CVE-2016-10713) - GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.(CVE-2014-9637) - GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.(CVE-2015-1196) - GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.(CVE-2019-13638) - do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.(CVE-2018-20969) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-13 plugin id 134514 published 2020-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134514 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : patch (EulerOS-SA-2020-1225) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2645.NASL description According to the versions of the patch package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.(CVE-2016-10713) - do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.(CVE-2018-20969) - GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.(CVE-2015-1196) - GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.(CVE-2014-9637) - GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.(CVE-2019-13638) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-18 plugin id 132180 published 2019-12-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132180 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : patch (EulerOS-SA-2019-2645) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1446.NASL description According to the versions of the patch package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A double free exists in the another_hunk function in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6.(CVE-2018-6952) - Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.(CVE-2015-1395) - An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.(CVE-2016-10713) - GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.(CVE-2014-9637) - This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.(CVE-2015-1196) - GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.(CVE-2019-13638) - do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.(CVE-2018-20969) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-16 plugin id 135608 published 2020-04-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135608 title EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : patch (EulerOS-SA-2020-1446)
References
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html