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CVE-2018-6952

Published: 13 February 2018

A double free exists in the another_hunk function in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
The patch for this introduced CVE-2019-20633, and no complete
fix is available from upstream as of 2023-09-26

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
patch
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Deferred
(2023-09-26)
artful Ignored
(end of life)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
upstream Needs triage

bionic Deferred
(2023-09-26)
focal Deferred
(2023-09-26)
trusty Deferred
(2023-09-26)
xenial Deferred
(2023-09-26)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was deferred [2023-09-26])
lunar Deferred
(2023-09-26)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
mantic Deferred
(2023-09-26)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=9c986353e420ead6e706262bf204d6e03322c300

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H