CVE-2018-6951
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6951
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6951.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201810-8
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.7.6-3 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.