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CVE-2015-1396 severity important: SUSE including 3 source package names (patch, patch-2.7.5-7.1, patch-2.7.5-8.5.1), 19 product×package rows across 19 product lines (Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, … (19 product lines)): Fixed 16, Known Not Affected 3.
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.