CVE-2018-6951
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6951
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6951.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6951
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-02-13T19:29:00.510Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-15T02:00:11.764863225Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 intuitdifftype function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "14.04" }, { "last_affected": "14.04" }, { "introduced": "16.04" }, { "last_affected": "16.04" }, { "introduced": "17.10" }, { "last_affected": "17.10" } ] } ] }- References
Affected packages
Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git
Git / https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git/
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git/
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected40b387de08653a1e46872b8ac1a6a14b9b94feb3
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "source": "CPE_RANGE", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "2.7.6" } ] }