CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6951
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu patch (<= 2.7.6)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/ Third Party Advisory