CVE-2015-1416

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1416

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.5-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.5-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.5-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.