Infinite loop Affecting patch package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PATCH-17906480
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed9 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-56289  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop through improper validation of line offsets in the hunk process. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive CPU resources and become unresponsive by supplying a specially crafted patch file with extremely large line numbers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1