CVE-2014-9637

Published: 31 December 2014

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Package	Release	Status
patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	upstream	Released (2.7.1-7)
	precise	Released (2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1)
	trusty	Released (2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3)
	utopic	Released (2.7.1-5ubuntu0.3)
	vivid	Released (2.7.3-1)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944

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