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CVE-2016-10713 (GCVE-0-2016-10713)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:30
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commi… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103063 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2033 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2018-02-13 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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