CVE-2010-4651
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in util.c in GNU patch 2.6.1 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a filename that is specified with a .. (dot dot) or full pathname, a related issue to CVE-2010-1679.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Affected | — |
| forky | Affected | — |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=685a78b6052f4df6eac6d625a545cfb54a6ac0e1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055241.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055246.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2010-12/msg00000.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/19
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/20
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/21
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43663
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43677
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46768
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4651
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.