<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201904-17"> <title>Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Patch, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">patch</product> <announced>2019-04-17</announced> <revised count="1">2019-04-17</revised> <bug>647792</bug> <bug>647794</bug> <bug>652710</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="sys-devel/patch" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.7.6-r3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.6-r3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. </p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Patch users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r3" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000156"> CVE-2018-1000156 </uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6951">CVE-2018-6951</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6952">CVE-2018-6952</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-04-11T21:19:29Z">b-man</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-04-17T18:28:49Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>