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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
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Ubuntu USN |
USN-3624-1 | Patch vulnerabilities |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T06:17:17.195Z
Reserved: 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-6951
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-02-13T19:29:00.510
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:28.273
Link: CVE-2018-6951
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Ubuntu USN