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.
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"published": "2018-02-13T19:29:00.510Z",
"id": "CVE-2018-6951",
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"modified": "2024-11-21T04:11:28.273Z"
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