CVE-2015-1416: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.2 only

Published 2018-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.