CVE-2018-6951

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
2025-11-20T20:33:18.788977Z
Severity
  • 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

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a

Git / git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected