NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting patch package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.59% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PATCH-2368541
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for patch.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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