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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Patch (Gnu)

References

• 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/