UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6951

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

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / patch

Package

Name: patch
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/patch@2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.1-3

2.7.1-4

2.7.1-4ubuntu1

2.7.1-4ubuntu2

2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "patch",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "patch-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.7.1-4ubuntu2.4"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / patch

Package

Name: patch
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/patch@2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "patch",
            "binary_version": "2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "patch-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.7.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}