CVE-2018-6951

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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
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-02-13T19:29:00.510Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:30:42.867061Z
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
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git/
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
40b387de08653a1e46872b8ac1a6a14b9b94feb3
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.1
v2.2
v2.3
v2.4
v2.5
v2.5.3
v2.5.4
v2.5.7
v2.5.8
v2.5.9
v2.6
v2.6.1
v2.7
v2.7.1
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.4
v2.7.5
v2.7.6

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "17.10"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6951.json"