Segmentation Fault and Denial of Service Vulnerability in GNU Patch

CVE-2018-6951 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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