CVE-2018-6951

2018-02-1300:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.6%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132>

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu17.10noarchpatch< 2.7.5-1ubuntu0.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchpatch< 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchpatch< 2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1UNKNOWN