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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-9637: patch additional directory traversal and infinity loop

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-9637: patch additional directory traversal and infinity loop

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/02/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
11/02/2017

Description

GNU patch 2.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and segmentation fault) via a crafted diff file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-patch

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