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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:

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