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CVE-2018-20969

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20969

CGA ID

CGA-99q3-9frm-mgwc

Severity

Unknown

Description

do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.

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