CVE-2018-6951

Description

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://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3