CVE-2018-6951
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6951
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6951.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6951
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-02-13T19:29:00.510Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-11T11:40:33.119079Z
- 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.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103044
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-17
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3624-1/
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53132
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=f290f48a621867084884bfff87f8093c15195e6a