CVE-2014-9637

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/22/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72286Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185262Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=0c08d7a902c6fdd49b704623a12d8d672ef18944Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44051Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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