Out-of-Bounds Affecting patch package, versions [,2.7.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.59% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PATCH-2368545
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2018

CVE-2016-10713  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade patch to version 2.7.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An issue was discovered in GNU patch before 2.7.6. Out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c can possibly lead to DoS via a crafted input file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1