SUSE CVE-2026-56289

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...

CVE-2026-56289 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in GNU patch

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...