CVE-2014-9637

GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2017-08-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Patch (Gnu)
• Mageia (Mageia)

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262
• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051