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 intuit_diff_type function in pch.c, aka a "mangled rename" issue.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade patch | Mar 26, 2024 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Debian | — | No solution exists | May 15, 2025 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade patch | Nov 12, 2018 | Nov 11, 2018 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade sys-devel/patch. | Apr 18, 2019 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade patch | Apr 30, 2021 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade text/gnu-patch to version 2.7.6.1-0.175.3.33.0.3.0 on Solaris 11.3 | Jun 18, 2018 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade patch | May 3, 2018 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade patch | Apr 25, 2018 | Feb 13, 2018 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Feb 13, 2018 |
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