CVE-2018-6951

HIGH7.5EPSS 46.1%
Published: 2/13/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-6951DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6951

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.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)