high7.5
CVE-2018-6951
An issue was discovered in GNU patch through 2.7.6.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Patch | through 2.7.6 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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/
- 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/