CVE-2026-56289

A flaw was found in GNU patch. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS by supplying a specially crafted patch file. The improper validation of hunk single block of changes in diff line offsets in unified-diff input can lead to an effectively infinite processin...

JLSEC-2026-1261 GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single...

GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS due to improper validation of hunk single block of changes in diff line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the application to enter an effectively infinite processing loop...

SUSE-SU-2026:22604-1 Security update for patch

This update for patch fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-56288: crafted unified-diff patch file can cause null pointer derefence bsc1271167. - CVE-2026-56289: improper validation of hunk line offsets can lead to denial of service bsc1271166...