CVE-2015-1196: GNU Patch

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.

Affected products

• GNU Patch: version 2.7.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only

Published 2015-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.