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CVE-2018-6951 (GCVE-0-2018-6951)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:17
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commi… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2018-02-13 00:00
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