CVE-2021-45261

Published: 22 December 2021

An Invalid Pointer vulnerability exists in GNU patch 2.7 via the another_hunk function, which causes a Denial of Service.

Priority

Negligible

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Notes

negligible security impact since it affects the CLI tool with
a specific malformed patch file.
As of 2022-03-04, upstream has not released any updates nor
comments on this issue, marking as deferred.

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45261
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian