NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting patch package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.27% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PATCH-525129
- published 13 Feb 2018
- disclosed 13 Feb 2018
Introduced: 13 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-6951 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11
patch
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream patch
package and not the patch
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6951
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6951
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6951
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/