CVE-2018-6951

An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6. There is a segmentation fault, associated with a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a denial of service in the intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.

Published: Feb 13, 2018
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2018-6951
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-476

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
gnu / patch	-	2.7.6.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	16.04	16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	14.04	14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	17.10	17.10.x

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2018-6951

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