PT-2019-10405
CVE-2018-20969
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Published
2018-06-08
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Updated
2026-09-18
Description by
CVSS 2.0
9.3
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
GNU patch versions through 2.7.6
Description
The issue is related to the do ed script function in pch.c, which fails to block strings starting with a ! character. This syntax is specific to ed and is unrelated to shell metacharacters.
Recommendations
For GNU patch versions through 2.7.6, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.
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