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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:49:34 -0500
From: Mark Felder <feld@...d.me>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1)
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 07:05, Adam Maris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know whether CVE-2015-1416 is BSD-only issue
> (https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch.asc)
> or does it also affect upstream patch(1) utility?
> In that case, is it tracked in upstream?
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Adam Maris / Red Hat Product Security
>
Hi Adam,
Which upstream? There are a few different flavors of patch(1) out there.
The one in FreeBSD is a variant of Larry Wall's patch, not GNU patch.
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