CVE-2026-56288

CVE-2026-56288 affects GNU patch. A NULL pointer dereference can occur while processing specially crafted unified-diff patch files due to improper handling of consecutive end-of-file newline markers, leading to a crash and denial of service. The issue is mitigated by the fixed patch in commit e6d...

CVE-2026-56289

CVE-2026-56289 affects GNU patch. The vulnerability is a DoS caused by improper validation of hunk line offsets in unified-diff input, where a crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing an effectively infinite processing loop and high CPU usage, rendering the process unresp...