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Message-ID: <20110105221707.GM15891@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:17:07 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: patch directory traversal flaw
* [2011-01-05 17:04:59 -0500] Dan Rosenberg wrote:
>Be sure to be careful while applying the patch to fix this one. :p
heh, yes indeed. =)
>On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com> wrote:
>> We got a heads up on a directory traversal flaw in patch. I don't think
>> a CVE name has been assigned to it; could we get one? It allows for the
>> creation of arbitrary files in unexpected places due to the use of '..'.
>>
>> References:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667529
>> http://osdir.com/ml/bug-patch-gnu/2010-12/msg00000.html
>>
>> Thanks.
--
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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