CVE-2018-6951

Published: 13 February 2018

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
patch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Released (2.7.5-1ubuntu0.2)
	precise	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Released (2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6951
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3624-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132

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