CVE-2018-6951

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

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

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6aPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6aPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 13, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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