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)
- Alpine/patchfrom 0, < 2.7.6-r2
- Debian/patchfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |